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Often appears with: heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · religious persecution and toleration · theatre and performance · temple conversion to chapels · symbolic use of the cross · sacrifice and ritual · ritual church construction · religious conversion efforts · prayer and worship · justice as a virtue · idolatry destruction · idolatry and demon belief
Usually: exhortation (3) · speech or oration (2) · narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · sacrifice for others (1) · censure (1)
“Indeed, hardly a day passed by that these people did not sacrifice from three to four, and even five Indians, tearing the hearts out of their bodies, to present them to the idols and smear the blood on the walls of the temple.” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · vivid
During the Ave Maria prayers at a cross on a sand-hill, Cortés has Bartolomé de Olmedo explain Christianity to Teuthlille and Quitlalpitoc, urging them to abandon idols, stop human sacrifice, and erect crosses and images of the Virgin.
elevated sand-hill. While we were all on our knees before it, and repeating the Ave Maria, Teuthlille and Quitlalpitoc inquired why we thus humbled ourselves so greatly before that pole. Cortes immediately turned to Bartolome de Olmedo, and remarked to him: "This is a good opportunity, father, to give these people some notion of our holy religion through our interpreters." This father Olmedo accordingly did in a man…
Cortés orders destroyed idols and demands Christian conversion, condemning human sacrifice and “unnatural crimes,” but receives resistance from Sempoalla chiefs; he has the new priests and altar prepared, and mass/baptism follows for seven named women.
after the fashion of the country: they wore beautiful shifts, had golden chains about their necks, golden rings in their ears, and had other Indian females to wait upon them. When the fat cazique presented these, he said to Cortes, "*Tecle*, (which signifies sir, in their language,) these seven women are intended for your chief officers, and this my niece, who herself holds dominion over a country and a people, I ha…
Cortes regroups Cholulla’s chiefs and explains Christianity, demanding the end of idolatry, human sacrifice, and temple abominations, even as the leaders promise destruction but keep postponing it.
in the recent attack. Our general, however, merely inquired who the rightful successor was according to their laws; and on being informed the late cazique's brother, he appointed him governor. As soon as the town was again filled with people, and the markets frequented as usual, Cortes assembled the papas, chiefs, and the principal inhabitants, and explained to them the nature of our holy religion, and showed them t…