Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 384
the sacerdotal classwere thus able to exercise a widely-diffused influence,which, under the later rulers, was almost equal to that ofthe emperor himself. The women shared in all the oc-cupations of the men, and were taught, like them, thearts of reading, writing, ciphering, singing in… … SUN-WORSHIP AMONG THE PERUVIANS.THE INCAS. The government of Peru was a theocracy. The Incawas at once the temporal sovereign and the supreme 384 PERI I IAN SI W- II OKSlf/I1. pontiff. He was regarded as the descendant and repre-sentative of the great deity, the sun, who was supposedto inspire his…
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