It is related that about the year 1440, at a grand religious council held at the consecration of the newly-built temple of the Sun at Cuzco, the Inca Yupanqui rose before the assembled multitude and spoke somewhat as follows:-- "Many say that the Sun is the Maker of all things.

But he who makes should abide by what he has made.

Now many things happen when the Sun is absent; therefore he cannot be the universal creator.

And that he is alive at all is doubtful, for his trips do not tire him.

Were he a living thing, he would grow weary like ourselves; were he free, he would visit other parts of the heavens.