[270] If an identity has been established between Quetzalcohuatl and Manco Capac (vide Prescott “Conquest of Peru,” i. 9), it will appear that this legislator, who shut his ears when he was spoken to of war, did nevertheless leave them admirable maxims (compare with Indian (Aryan) maxims, [p. 400]) and laws of war, e.g. Prescott, “Peru,” p. 69. Compare extract from Davies—vide supra, [preface].
“The Peruvian soldier was forbidden to commit any trespass on the property of the inhabitants whose territory lay in the line of march. From the moment war was proclaimed,” &c., “in every stage of the war he was open to propositions for peace, and although he sought to reduce his enemies by carrying off their harvests and destressing them by famine, the Peruvian monarch allowed his troops to commit no unnecessary outrage on person or property.” It is not to the point that these rules were not always observed.
[271] Compare supra, [p. 201], note to Manou (Bacchus).
[272] Compare with Gen. vi. 18, viii. 15, “And God spoke to Noe, saying”; also vi. 13, ix. 8; and Gen. viii. 20—“And Noe built an altar unto the Lord, and taking of all cattle”; and ix. 20—“And Noe, a husbandman, began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.” Also Ecclesiasticus xliv. 1, 3, 4, 19, “The covenants of the world were made with him.” Compare also with the “Oracula Sybillina,” supra, [p. 237].
[273] It may be well here to recall to recollection the well-known lines of Virgil—
“Ultima Cumæi venit jam carminis ætas:
Magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo,
Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna
Jam nova progenies cœlo dimittitur alto.”
Eclogues IV.