_How Manco Capac, when he saw that his brothers had been turned into
stones, went to a valley where he met some people, and how he founded
and built the ancient and very rich city of Cuzco, which was the capital
of the whole empire of the Incas._
When Manco Capac had seen what had happened to his brothers, and had
come to the valley where now is the city of Cuzco, the Orejones say that
he raised his eyes to heaven and, with great humility, besought the Sun
that he would favour and aid him in forming the new settlement. Then
turning his eyes towards the hill of Guanacaure he addressed the same
petition to his brother, whom he now held and reverenced as a god. Next
he watched the flight of birds, the signs in the stars, and other omens,
which filled him with confidence, so that he felt certain that the new
settlement would flourish, and that he would be its founder and the
father of all the Incas who would reign there.
In the name of Ticiviracocha, and of the Sun, and of the other Gods, he
laid the foundation of the new city. The original and beginning of it
was a small stone house with a roof of straw that Manco Capac and his
women built, to which they gave the name of Curicancha,[83] meaning the
place of gold. This is the place where afterwards stood that celebrated
and most rich temple of the Sun, and now a monastery of monks of the
order of St. Domingo. It is held for certain that, at the time when
Manco Inca Capac built this house, there were Indians in large numbers
in the district; but as he did them no harm and did not in any wise
molest them, they did not object to his remaining in their land, but
rather rejoiced at his coming. So Manca Capac built the said house, and
it was devoted to the worship of his Gods, and he became a great man and
one who represented high authority.
One of his wives was barren and never had children. By the other he had
three sons and one daughter. The eldest was named Inca[84] Roca Inca and
the daughter Ocllo. The names of the others are not recorded, nor is
more said than that the eldest was married to his sister, and that he
taught them how to make themselves beloved by the people and not hated,
with other important matters. In those days the descendants of Zapana
had made themselves powerful in Hatuncollao, and sought to occupy all
that region by tyranny. But Manco Capac, as the founder of Cuzco, had
married his sons, and brought into his service, by love and good words,
some people who enlarged the house of Curicancha. After he had lived for
many years, he died at a great age, and his obsequies, were sumptuously
performed. Besides that, a figure of him was made, to be reverenced as a
child of the Sun.