El Segvndo Mes Febrero Pavcar Varai Quilla · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: El Segvndo Mes Febrero Pavcar Varai Quilla
Subject: Months; Rituals; Sacrifice; Traditions; Rainy Season; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; February
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America; Peru
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the traditions and rituals of each month during the Inca Empire. The Incas tracked the months and years through the stars and their months consisted of thirty days. This image depicts the month of February, which was dedicated to wearing loincloths and sacrificing gold, silver, and llamas to their idols and Gods. The author explains that February was also a month of heavy rains, which is why there are clouds and rain drawn at the top of the image. There is a man kneeling in the image as he offers his sacrifice to his idol which is pictured atop a mountain on the left side of the image. The caption that describes the image is written written on the side of the mountain and it reads sacrificio con oro y plata y lo rrecibe y mollo y cuui, which translates to sacrifice of gold and silver, and he receives it, and seashell and guinea pig. The other caption at the bottom of the image reads sacrificio con oro y plata abundancia, which translates to abundance of sacrifice in gold and silver.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20295
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_20295_OBJ.jpg

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