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| | CHAPTER VII; The Mythology of Peru |
 | | Many of these were serpents, trees, and rivers, the noises made by which appeared to the primitive Peruvians-as, indeed, they do to primitive folk all over the world-to be of the quality of articulate speech. |
 | | Both the Huillcamayu and the Apurimac rivers at Cuzco were huillca oracles of this kind, as their names, "Huillca-river " and "Great Speaker," denote. |
 | | These oracles often set the mandate of the Inca himself at defiance, occasionally supporting popular opinion against his policy. |
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