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‖ guaca|ˈgwɑːkə|
[Quichua huaca; according to Tschudi Kechua-Wb. (1853) a vague term for any object of religious reverence.]
A general term for objects connected with the religious worship of the Incas, as idols, temples, grave-mounds, etc.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. ii. 332 In this first kind of idolatry [worship of natural objects] they have exceeded in Peru, and they properly cal it Guaca. Ibid. v. v. 340 They shewd me..a little hill or great mount of sand, which was the chiefe Idoll or Guaca of the Antients. Ibid. v. xii. 359 In every Province of Peru, there was one principall Guaca, or house of adoration. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 878 This Guaca (so they called their Idols and Temples) was Generall to all the Indians of Peru. 1748Earthquake Peru Pref. 8 In their Guaca's (the Indian Word for Sepulchre)..they always buried great quantities of Gold. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. II. vii. 321 The Guacas, or mounds of earth, with which they covered the bodies of the dead. |