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Often appears with: theatre and performance · sacrifice and ritual · idolatry destruction · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · conversion to christianity · baptism of indigenous elites · abolition of human sacrifice
Usually: narrative (1) · sacrifice for others (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (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
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…