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SCEPTICAL INCAS.
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must admit that they succeeded in governing well, and more especially in maintaining intact their own religious and political prestige.
Now this very cleverness, this conscious and often extremely deliberate and astutely calculated policy, compels us to ask how far the Incas themselves were sincere in their pretension to be descended from the Sun, and their faith in the very special favour in which the great luminary held them. There is so much rationalism in their habitual tactics, that one cannot help suspecting a touch of it in their beliefs. And the truth is that their descendant, Garcilasso, has recorded certain traditions to that effect, which he has perhaps dressed up a little too much in Euro-
| Mayta Capac, | died about | 1156 | ||
| Capac Yupanqui, | „ | 1197 | ||
| Inca Roca, | „ | 1249 | ||
| Yahuar Huacac, | „ | 1289 | ||
| Viracocha Inca Ripac | „ | 1340 | ||
| [Inca Urco, who only reigned 11 days, is omitted by Garcilasso] | ||||
| Tito Manco Capac Pachacutec, | „ | 1400 | ||
| Yupanqui, | „ | 1438 | ||
| Tupac Yupanqui, | „ | 1475 | ||
| Huayna Capac, | „ | 1525 | ||
| Huascar, | } | „ | { | 1532 |
| Atahualpa, | „ | 1533 | ||
