archives@tulane.edu / During his tenure, Viceroy Francisco de Toledo implemented the administrative reform of Spain’s South American territories (1569-1581). In the restructuring process, Toledo carried out a series of inspection tours that gathered historical “evidence” of the Inca’s tyranny. As a consequence, canonical texts about the history of Peru were written, depicting the myths and rituals of the Incas from a Toledan perspective, which remain influential today. Nevertheless, La Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (c. 1575), by the Spanish priest Cristóbal de Molina, departs from standard portrayals of the Incas. This thesis documents the ways in which Molina’s work interprets Inca sacred history as compatible with Christian religion. My dissertation, las fábulas y los ritos de los Incas: un estudio comparado sobre la religión andina en el texto de Cristóbal de Molina y otras crónicas peruanas. consists of four chapters. The first chapter is a survey of sixteenth-century Peruvian historiography and the place of Molina’s work in relation to other Inca histories of the time. The second chapter analyses Molina’s depiction of Incan oral histories in contrast with contemporary Spanish accounts. The third chapter examines Molina’s representation of Inca ceremonies and rituals, and their implications for the Christian indoctrination of indigenous peoples. The fourth chapter explores the prominence of female religious specialists, priestesses, and deities in Molina’s rendering of pre-Hispanic cult worship. / 1 / Liliana McGuffin-Naranjo