Narratives of the rites and laws of the Yncas (Annotated Myths and Folktales of Indigenous peoples): Peru’s Antiquities relating to pre-conquest Peru-Inca Religion, history, mythology in Inca Empire

by Clements Robert Markham

This book is retelling the study of Incas, the Indians of South America in Peru.

It is a compendium of translations of four rather disparate documents relating to pre-conquest Peru. As with most early studies of Spanish America, they range rather freely between religion, history, and laws. The fourth in particular is exclusively concerned with laws, while the third is mythological, and is also interesting because it deals with an outlying province of the Inca empire. The printed book also contains a fifty page index of subjects, places, names, and Quechua words which is not reproduced here.

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901 - 04, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott.