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56 authorities with regard to the names of the four first successors of Manco. They were and  Most of these names are merely titles. The actual names are and  For the fourth only titles are given, and no personal name. The kings continued to live within the fortified dividing the land between the torrents into four quarters, to be occupied by their followers: namely  or the angular place, where the torrents join;  or the place of stone heaps, perhaps buildings;  or the place where the Sayri plant was cultivated; and  another place for cultivation. These four kings undertook no great enterprise. Mayta Ccapac alone showed any energy, by finally subjugating the tribes in the Cuzco valley. The kings at the Inti-cancha were respected by the surrounding chiefs as children of the sun, and for their superior knowledge and civilisation. Envoys were sent to them, some with submission, and they wisely cemented alliances by marriages with daughters of their more powerful neighbours. The marriages with sisters was a much later custom of their prouder and more imperially minded successors.

Apparently these early successors of Manco, owing to a certain superiority, occupied a position of priority, scarcely of suzerainty, over a very