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SUCCESSORS OF MANCO

authorities with regard to the names of the four first successors of Manco. They were Sinchi Rocca, Lloque Yupanqui, Mayta Ccapac, and Ccapac Yupanqui. Most of these names are merely titles. The actual names are Rocca, Lloque, and Mayta. For the fourth only titles are given, and no personal name. The kings continued to live within the fortified Inti-cancha, dividing the land between the torrents into four quarters, to be occupied by their followers: namely Quinti-cancha, or the angular place, where the torrents join; Chumpi-cancha, or the place of stone heaps, perhaps buildings; Sayri-cancha, or the place where the Sayri plant was cultivated; and Yarampuy-cancha, another place for cultivation. These four kings undertook no great enterprise. Mayta Ccapac alone showed any energy, by finally subjugating the tribes in the Cuzco valley. The kings at the Inti-cancha were respected by the surrounding chiefs as children of the sun, and for their superior knowledge and civilisation. Envoys were sent to them, some with submission, and they wisely cemented alliances by marriages with daughters of their more powerful neighbours. The marriages with sisters was a much later custom of their prouder and more imperially minded successors.

Apparently these early successors of Manco, owing to a certain superiority, occupied a position of priority, scarcely of suzerainty, over a very