One of the most remarkable antiquities in Peru is at a place called _Concacha_, three leagues south of Abancay, on the road from Cuzco to Lima.

M.Leonce Angrand has observed that this "was evidently one of the great religious centres of the primitive peoples of Peru." Here is found an enormous block of granite, very curiously carved to facilitate the dispersion of a liquid poured on its summit into varied streams and to quaint receptacles.

Whether the liquid was the blood of victims, the intoxicating beverage of the country, or pure water, all of which have been suggested, we do not positively know, but I am inclined to believe, with M.Wiener, that it was the last mentioned, and that it was as the beneficent deity of the rains that Con was worshiped at this sacred spot.

Its name _con cacha_, "the Messenger of Con," points to this.[1] [Footnote 1: These remains are carefully described by Charles Wiener, _Perou et Bolivie_, p.

282, seq; from the notes of M.Angrand, by Desjardins, _Le Perou avant la Conquete Espagnole_, p.