Besides referring to the Inca calendar, Blas Valera gives in the document of Exsul Immeritus also a simplified drawing of the Ceque system in Cuzco. According to the original description of Polo de Ondegardo from 1559, this consisted of 41 lines or directions going out from the central temple of the Sun. In three suyus (quarters of the town) each there were nine ceques (lines) in three groups of three but in the fourth suyu this number was doubled in such a way that here were 14 ceques. This

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... uliarity of the last suyu can be attested in similar ways also for other Andean local organizations. In fact, it results to be a crucial characteristic derived from general Andean concepts of social, political, ritual and calendrical organization. In terms of the calendar, each ceque organized also a specific number of huacas, locations in the landscape of the Cuzco valley that were attended ritually in their special days. Thus, the numbers of huacas attached to the ceques are of central importance to our knowledge of the Inca calendar. Blas Valera gives us in his drawing a simplified version of the Ceque system. He represents each group of three ceques by one line. He gives the correct numbers of huacas belonging to the respective suyus but various numbers as attached to groups of ceques differ from those given by Polo and in terms of the individual ceques they become more problematic, especially where they concern the fourth suyu. The article is a critical evaluation of the numbers of ceques and huacas given by Blas Valera as compared by those of Polo de Ondegardo. Now that the Miccinelli documents are published, it becomes of crucial and urgent importance to study them critically, discussing them jointly by specialists of different expertise in terms of what they contribute to our knowledge of the precolumbian world of the Incas.