An Incan Wedding
The “Same Blood”: Incans were prohibited from marrying anyone outside of their own city or community. While lower-class Incans often married a cousin or more distant relation, it was apparently more common for a future Incan king to marry his own sister, “for said they, since the sun took the moon his sister to wife… ‘twas but reasonable the same order should be observed with regard to the king’s eldest children.” If the future king had no sister, he would marry the next closest relation.