Excerpt from Modern Traveller, Vol. 28 of 30: Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe The government of the Incas of Peru was a Species of theocracy the sovereign united in his own person the temporal and the spiritual supremacy, and the Children of the Sun were both priests and kings. But, though the most absolute despotism in its form, it was far more mild in its character, and less 0p pressive in fact, than that of the Mexican sovereigns. The blind and passive submission which the Peruvians yielded to their sovereigns, precluded a recurrence to force; and, while every crime was punishable with death, the number of offenders was extremely small. The religious system too, upon which the Incas grafted their claims to such high authority, was of a genius very different from that terrible and atrocious superstition which obtained the ascendancy among the Mexicans. The dire and cruel worship of the Terrible God, the Moloch of the Aztecs, has been compared to that of the Hindoo Seeva; and in their Goddess of Hell, we have the counterpart to his wife, the black goddess Kali, to whom the Vedas enjoin the offering of human sacrifices. The blood less rites of the Peruvian worship, on the other hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.