THERE IS AN INCAN MYTH THAT TELLS THE TALE OF A FOX WHO WAS SO TAKEN BY HER BEAUTY THAT WHEN SHE ROSE IN THE SKY, HE SQUEEZED HIMSELF AGAINST HER PRODUCING THE DARK PATCHES THAT SHE CAME TO BE COVERED IN. LUNAR ECLIPSES WERE GREATLY FEARED AS THE INCA BELIEVED THAT BELIEVED THAT SHE HAD BEEN SWALLOWED UP BY A PUMA OR A SNAKE. IF THE ECLIPSE WAS TOTAL, THEY BELIEVED THAT THE MOON WAS PERHAPS DEAD AND WOULD FALL TO THE EARTH, CRUSHING THEM.
FOR THIS REASON WHEN AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON WAS BEGINNING, THE INCA WOULD GRAB WHATEVER INSTRUMENTS AS WERE WITHIN THEIR REACHDRUMS, TRUMPETS, CYMBALS, ETC.AND MAKE A FRIGHTFUL NOISE, AND, TYING UP THEIR DOGS, TORMENTED THEM SO AS TO EXTORT THE MOST HIDEOUS CRIES FROM THEM, IN THE HOPE THAT THE MOON, BEING A FRIEND OF DOGS, WOULD BE SOFTENED BY THEIR HOWLING AND TRY TO RETURN TO LIFE. MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN JOINED WITH THEIR PRINCES IN CONJURATIONS TO AVERT THE CATASTROPHE. AS LONG AS THE ECLIPSE CONTINUED THEY KEPT EXCLAIMING, "MAMA-QUILLA, MAMA-QUILLA"!
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