Prehistoric Man; Researches Into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old And the New World
Prehistoric Man; Researches Into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old And the New World
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The national traditions pointed to the Valley of Cuzco as the original seat of native civili- sation. There their mythic Manco Capac founded the city of that name; on the high lands around it a number of columns were reared which served for taking azimuths, and by measuring their shadows the precise time of the solstices were determined.
Besides the divine honours paid to the sun, the Peruvians worshipped the host of heaven, and dedicated temples to the thunder and lightning, and to the rainbow..., as the wrathful and benign messengers of the supreme solar deity. It might naturally be anticipated that a nation thus devoted to astronomical observa- tions, and maintaining a sacred caste exclusively for watching solar and stellar phenomena, would have attained to great knowledge in that branch of science. Apparently, however, the facilities which their equatorial position afforded for determining the few indispen- sable periods in their calendar, removed the stimulus to further pn^ess ; and not only do we find them surpassed in this respect by the Muyscas, occupying a part of the same great southern plateau, who regulated their calendar on a system presenting con- siderable points of resemblance to that of the Aztecs ; but they remained to the last in total ignorance of the true causes of eclipses, and regarded such phenomena with the same superstitious and apprehensive wonder as has affected the untutored savage mind in all ages.
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The national traditions pointed to the Valley of Cuzco as the original seat of native civili- sation. There their mythic Manco Capac founded the city of that name; on the high lands around it a number of columns were reared which served for taking azimuths, and by measuring their shadows the precise time of the solstices were determined.
Besides the divine honours paid to the sun, the Peruvians worshipped the host of heaven, and dedicated temples to the thunder and lightning, and to the rainbow..., as the wrathful and benign messengers of the supreme solar deity. It might naturally be anticipated that a nation thus devoted to astronomical observa- tions, and maintaining a sacred caste exclusively for watching solar and stellar phenomena, would have attained to great knowledge in that branch of science. Apparently, however, the facilities which their equatorial position afforded for determining the few indispen- sable periods in their calendar, removed the stimulus to further pn^ess ; and not only do we find them surpassed in this respect by the Muyscas, occupying a part of the same great southern plateau, who regulated their calendar on a system presenting con- siderable points of resemblance to that of the Aztecs ; but they remained to the last in total ignorance of the true causes of eclipses, and regarded such phenomena with the same superstitious and apprehensive wonder as has affected the untutored savage mind in all ages.
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