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HANAN AND HURIN CUZCO
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Cuzcos, and settle in the upper part of the city. Half the ayllus which marched to Cuzco with Ayar Manco were also to be Hanan Cuzcos. These were:

Chavin,
Arayraca,
Sañoc,
Tarpuntay (sacrificer),
Huacay Taqui (sacred music).

Perhaps these five tribes had shown more devotion to the cause of the new ruler than the others. The descendants of Rocca's predecessors were all to be Hurin Cuzcos, and to live in the lower part of the city. The other five original ayllus were also Hurin Cuzcos:

Tampu (settled at Ollantay-tampu),
Cuycusa,
Masca (Mascani, I search),
Maras (settled at Maras),
Uru (settled at Urupampa).

Probably the division into upper and lower was connected, in some way, with the military exercises which were rigorously enforced by Inca Rocca. The descendants of the ten original ayllus mustered upwards of 20,000 fighting men. Several military expeditions were undertaken, and several neighbouring tribes were subdued—Muyna, Pinahua, Cayto-marca, and others—though their territories were not then permanently occupied. But the foundations were laid for a great army, destined to conquer and subjugate the whole Andean

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