Snakes of the Apechique tribe (the mountaineers)
and the Huama took many of them captives to the
coasts.
"From the old land of Tolan had come the
ancestors of the rulers of the Chincha, and the
foremost master among the rulers of Runahuanac.
Some of their women had come from the
mountaineers, overthrown later by the Incas, and
some from the Huallmi, who in later times were
found among the Tschimu. From the old land of
Tolan had come the Vestals of the Sun; these were
of the ancient Tolan people. The barbarians
coming to the coast gorged themselves with the
holy men found near the coast for six years, those
who were under the rulers of Quito, or under the
chiefs of the Eagle's tribesmen. The women of the
Rapa, the mothers of this clan of the Sun's
people, and the Vestals of the Sun of this free
and loved tribe were captured. The rulers of the
Chincha, the clan, and the chiefs of Liribamba,
and those of the town of Lican, whose ancestors
lighted the fires of the Sun, among this Sun's
people. These chiefs of men, their heads were
turned from their Prince Ata, and he only reigned
as their chief for eight years. Long before this
the chief Hualla and his clansmen had migrated
under the guidance of the Spirits, taking their
women and the women of the sacred chief with all
his men, and, on a two-sailed vessel, sailed away.
This chief's ancestors were the Eagle chiefs and
the Cha-Rapa, the Eagle chief of the Puruha.
Others were among the dead Chimbu-razu. The Luan
ancestors who lighted the Sun-fires among the Sun's
people, the descendents of the Chincha. In the
songs and chants of the women they sing of these
things, as do the women of the region of waters,
and of the Yañahuara. It was the ancestors of
those who in the town of Lican lighted the fires
of the Sun for the Sun's people, the Chincha, and
kept it burning there for six years, even when
opposed by the rulers of the Huaman, as the women
sing in their chants. Then many of the people
from Yañahuara, after these six years with the
sacred chief in a two-sailed vessel went off to
the island of Puna. After this the fires of the
Sun went out in Lican, and the days of our
ancestors in various parts of Quito were ended,
and these free, Sun's children of the Chincha, the
Golden Sun's people, those sacred, free, and
beloved tribes, are remembered in the chants of
the women of the Cha-Rapa.
"The women of the
Picu tribe had to change to the Chincha their
fires of the Sun from their sacred and loved clan
home. Their women had been punished and
overwhelmed, and the tribal fires extinguished by
the Huarcas after five years' fightings. Near the
Sun-fires of the ancestors of the Sun's people and
the town of Lican were branches of the Ticu tribe,
also the chiefs of the Intaga, the Changes, and
various people of the Sun's clans. Three of these
united, and these three joined the clan of the
chief Hualla, thus adding to this clan these
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