Idolos I Vacas De Los Conde Svios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Idolos I Vacas De Los Conde Svios
Subject: Gods; Huacas; Idols; Deities; Llamas; Sacrifice; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Condesuyo
Description: This chapter is dedicated to describing the idols and gods of the Incas. This image depicts the indigenous people of the Condesuyo region in Peru making a sacrifice to their local huaca [deity]. Their deity is depicted on top of the volcano on the left side of the image. The volcano is labeled as coropona [Coropuna]. The people at the base of the volcano are offering their sacrifices to the deity. The kneeling man is offering a twelve-year-old child as his sacrifice, while the person beside him is offering what appears to be a small animal. The caption at the bottom of the image reads en los condes [in Condesuyo].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20436
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_20436_OBJ.jpg