command of the Inca ... because of this it was considered that she was
taken until death and she was received on this understanding and never
deserted" (Molina). "When the Inca Rocca married his sister, six thousand
people were married on the next day" (Montesinos). In the festival called
Ccapac Raymi, maidens who had attained womanhood offered bowls of
fermented chicha to the youths who had just been admitted to the ranks of
the warriors.

"During this festival the Priests of the Sun and of the Creator brought a
quantity of fuel, tied together in handfuls, and dressed as a man and a
woman ... they were offered to the Creator, the Sun and the Inca and were
burnt in their clothes together with a sheep" (Molina).

Towards the end of the same month (November), feasts were celebrated for
the flocks of the huacas, that they might multiply; for which sacrifices
were made throughout the kingdom. Ultimately "public solemn sacrifices
were made to the Creator, the Sun, the Thunder and the Moon for all
nations, that they might prosper and multiply" (Molina). A few weeks
later, an exemption from ceremonial bondage, for three months, commenced.
Throughout January, February and March no religious festival took place at
Cuzco--the farmers attended to their land and the people were left at
liberty to pursue their various avocations uninterruptedly (Molina ed.
Hakluyt, pp. 51 and 52). I have already shown that the same exemption from
ceremonial bondage during ninety to one hundred days of the year was
customary in Mexico; and, in my note on the Ancient Mexican Calendar
System, communicated to the Congress of Americanists at Stockholm in 1894
(p. 16), I explained the reasons which had led me to infer that "the
religious festivals were concentrated in the ritual years of 260 days,"
which indeed forms a unit, consisting of a complete set of combinations of
the numbers 13 and 20.

In Dr. Franz Boas' admirable monograph on the Social Organization and
secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (Washington, 1897, p. 418), it is
shown that at the present day the clan system is only in force during one
division of the year. "At the beginning of the winter ceremonial the
social system is completely changed. The period when the class system is
in force is called ba-xus. The period of the winter ceremonial is
designated as 'the secrets,' 'making the heart good,' also 'brought down
from Above.' The Indians express this alternating of seasons by sayin