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of them more than what I recount, go to a delightful place full of
enjoyment and pleasure, where they all eat and drink and rejoice; and
if, on the contrary, they have done evil, disobedient to parents,
hostile to religion, they go to another place which is dark and dismal.
In the first book I treated more fully of these things, so that I will
now pass on, and relate in what manner the people of this kingdom lived
before the Incas flourished and made themselves sovereign lords, in
which time all affirm that they were in a state of anarchy, without any
of the order, and reasonable government and justice which was afterwards
established. I will also recount what there is to be said of
Ticiviracocha, which is the name by which the Maker of all things was
known.