even find- that nearly a twentieth - part ■ of the words i have
evidently the same'origin*«especially those .which;;express
Teligi®mfideas ; s ö thaty while it must be acknowledged, that
there fs a multitude-of words whose roots a re 'different* and
which would seem to denote a difference of-origin, we are induced
to believe that the Aymara language lis a cognate
lofi the Qnfehua, which surrounds albowSleë:-'«nds-has
been altered by time. This* hypothesis would agree with the
geographical position of, the plateau of; Titk^cay where r the
; Aymaras five, and still more with the monumdnts„lofinthis
nation, wbiéhe appddr torfbe^ theisoqntaal poipfc pfopriraitiive
civilisation.1 ; It might 'be!'stih; mquiréds ( Whether! rfbai sacred
idiom which thé Incas ti'airsplantedi fiom thp ihankSjof the
lake tof* Titicaca to the ©use©* andviwhieh s theplju^m^éd
in their family, may not be the Aymara langudgesïim
“ In character, in intellectual powers, in manners, in cn%
tomsy in the visages-ef private narid somalMife,! in agricultural
and manufacturing industry, and in clothing, the Aymaras
entirely* resembled and still resemble tl^ iQuiehufi^AQjiwhom
theyuweiein subjection?? but if wes wil eastr-axf apid
ever the* -mode of architecture bfïi their moriunienfsiB wböse
origin is lost in f he darkness of antiquity^wé shallififöAft great
difference between them and those of the Iuce&jj -W
the monuments of Tiaguanacoy situated uni th e «óentre o t th^r
country near the lake of Titicaca, of which many ancient authors
have spoken, and the origin of which' Wasyso^ehtirely .unknown
th a t they* faereMsaid * by a figurative expressronto .have . been
built before the sum enlightened the earth. These monuments
which r we discovered it denote • a more advanced civilisation
perhaps even than that of Palenque. They *, consist of a
mound raised nearly a hundred feet, surrounded with pillars ;
—of temples from a hundred to two hundred metres in length,
placed precisely towards the east, and adorned with colosaal an-
gular columns;—of porticosof one stone covered with reliffsvpf
skilful execution, although of rude design, displaying symbolical
representations of the * sun, and the condor his messenger
;—of colossal basaltic statues loaded with bas-reliqfs,
in which the design of the carved head is. half ^gyptiap,;-?—
and lastly, of the interior-of a palace formed of, $nqrmcms
bfe'éklföf rock* Completely-hewny whose- [dimensions are often
seven meteesdn l©®^thj-®nd four* metiescin-breadthy and two in
thickness.' In the xtomples ? and-< palaces the portals are not
Inclined as among those of the Ifioasy but perpendicular; and
their vast dimensions, and the -imposing masses of which they
are composed,-surpassj in- beauty aiid grandeur all that were
;rfetwards f builtehyithé sovereign® ofeGuScbsa* We know dot
the existence* of)SGulptoiefbrMefébaM®liéfs;Tid thé monuments
of the Quichuasy While those o f Tiaguanaco are all thus orna-
me n ted. ' x T-heipresencb of these? rudest -remains * of an ancient
.civilisation, upon tho «point on -which cthefirst Inca emerged
'from the dake < tojjj found the s empire: o f Gusco,l appears it©Ioffer
ail additional proof ■ that from, thence,xwelre transported- with
!üfetnCOHC5apaö the lasti -memorials off thef earitenigrandeur a®f
the Aymatasi;» u i
Püfüj^axph ?3*s—History Off he Aymarasgapdathe« Qutchua&y
f** The Aymaras i$rteoa( people* whoëéshistory hasi dikhert©! been
svery littlei sknownt > Threir ?cdantry isfftfeexregtomO surroundihg
Jfhë lake of• Titicaca/aWhteh xmanyf.(persons nowiBupposevto
-have been theieatiof the^earMefet civiliSatioarbf? South Airuerica,
deferred by thematik) ah ;er® lirfglanteceiienfe tof itiife dymstylof
fiflife tecasl1 Otothis stippositk>mtoe/Aym dries- rise :antom> (Station
^importance in th e histotiy of AmeBOa^ which they have ‘hot
heretofore! held. y -Mv- ffOrW^^oentoraces? thes opinion' which
MSOribes-toéfche?Aymaras thiSKgrgiter ahthpiitya«vHeödbsfcartes
that iMahco^Gajjac is said b y the1 Quiohuan tradition- to'have
*ffladeJ his first: appearance on the -lakb-of^Titiffiaea/where he
iwhs fabled? to halve risenxfiom fheJwéVes»riöieKee>pHïpeéding
nbifhwardy'he Assembled undOrbkssvlasyHianybarba*© Us tribes,
whom heCOllected ’initile cityfcfi'Ghaeoj. th© .futatoseat Ofthe
poWër of the lPeMbis desceiidantéj - The tlpM»king,i>]kl6qpe
Ytipanqtii, adcordmg to (SafoilafesordefetYfegay,began* to reduce
the Aymaras • tinder the
revisited the monuments of Tiagua naeoy whence withou t doubt
their fordfatbers had descended, till theoreigiri of Mayta-
*.Capacy f h i sydcfesSor!§f i' Ytipanquh' a id ffie finaliconqtHistiOf
the Aymata nation under the ioveraignsi o f Cufeco isp o t dated