ABSTRACT
But they erred, for Ophir, grandson of Noah, supposing that when he settled Hamerica2 it was three hundred and forty years after the Deluge, and during the remaining one hundred and sixty years [of that sun] his sons and descendants lived in the fear and love of God and of their fellow-creatures, with all peacefulness and without quarrels or dissensions. This lasted but a short while in Piru, for its inhabitants, of whom
these stones are that look like hoards piled up/' And some say that it was from this event that this first city got its name of Cuzco. And others say that the site where the city was founded was enclosed with hills and had some depressions which it was necessary to level with earth, and this word to level is expressed by the verb cozcoani, cozcochanqui or chanssi,1 and that from this came the name of Cuzco.
