The Royal Commentaries of the Yncas shows that the evil was of a comparatively modern growth.  In the early period of Peruvian history the people considered the crime “unspeakable:”  if a Cuzco Indian, not of Yncarial blood, angrily addressed the term pederast to another, he was held infamous for many days.  One of the generals having reported to the Ynca Ccapacc Yupanqui that there were some sodomites, not in all the valleys, but one here and one there, “nor was it a habit of all the inhabitants but only of certain persons who practised it privately,” the ruler ordered that the criminals should be publicly burnt alive and their houses, crops and trees destroyed:  moreover, to show his abomination, he commanded that the whole village should so be treated if one man fell into this habit (Lib. iii. cap. 13).  Elsewhere we learn, “There were sodomites in some provinces, though not openly nor universally, but some particular men and in secret.  In some parts they had them in their temples, because the Devil persuaded them that the Gods took great delight in such people, and thus the Devil acted as a traitor to remove the veil of shame that the Gentiles felt for this crime and to accustom them to commit it in public and in common.”

During the times of the Conquistadores male concubinage had become the rule throughout Peru.  At Cuzco, we are told by Nuno de Guzman in 1530 “The last which was taken, and which fought most couragiously, was a man in the habite of a woman, which confessed that from a childe he had gotten his liuing by that filthinesse, for which I caused him to be burned.”  V. F. Lopez[FN#416] draws a frightful picture of pathologic love in Peru.  Under the reigns which followed that of Inti-Kapak (Ccapacc) Amauri, the country was attacked by invaders of a giant race coming from the sea:  they practiced pederasty after a fashion so shameless that the conquered tribes were compelled to fly(p. 271).  Under the pre-Yncarial Amauta, or priestly dynasty, Peru had lapsed into savagery and the kings of Cuzco preserved only the name.  “Toutes ces hontes et toutes ces miseres provenaient de deux vices infames, la bestialite et la sodomie.  Les femmes surtout etaient offensees de voir la nature frustree de tous ses droits.  Wiles pleuraient ensemble en leurs reunions sur le miserable etat dans loquel elles etaient tombees, sur le mepris avec lequel elles etaient traitees. * * * * Le monde etait renverse, les hommes s’aimaient et etaient jaloux les uns des autres. * * * Elles cherchaient, mais en vain, les moyens de remedier au mal; elles employaient des herbes et des recettes diaboliques qui leur ramenaient bien quelques individus, mais ne pouvaient arreter les progres incessants du vice.  Cet etat de choses constitua un veritable moyen age, qui aura jusqu’a l’etablissement du gouvernement des Incas” (p. 277).