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  • Etiquetas: Idolatría

Know then, that your are deluded; that you follow a false worship; that you pay adoration to inanimate blocks, the inventions of your priests, and the work of your own hands.

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The superstition of those people not contended with such great number of temples in their cities, villages, and hamlets, erected many altars upon the tops of hill, in the woods, and in the streets, not only for the purpose of encouraging the…

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but seven had died of hunger and fatigue, the rest fell into the hands of the Cacique of the country, who immediately sacrificed five to his idols

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for that we are told, that when Hernan Cortez first went to the Island of Cozumel, which was in February, 1519 as shall be related in it’s Place, there was an Idol there of the same Name, which was had in great Veneration, not only by the Islanders…

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During this speech Montezuma was visibly agitated; he could not, without indignation, hear his gods spoken of contemptuously, and with difficulty contained himself till Cortez ceased speaking.

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I proceed, in the next place, to enquire into the Religión of the Mexican Tribes, who succeeded the Chichimeca’s; and these, according to Acosta, de Solis, and other Spanish Writers of Figure, acknowledg’d one supreme God as well as Peruvians, and…

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But unsheathed the swords of princes, and polluted the temple of Christ with more blood than was ever shed on the altars of Moloch, or in honour of Vitzililiputzuli, the God of Mexico.

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I ought to be a judge of this matter, since I have seen the worship of the Spaniards, and taken notice of the manner in which they address their God; by which even strangers may be moved, and which has so often shaken the constancy of the worshipers…

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…the largest of [the idols] which he called Vizlipuzli, and described the manner of worship that was peculiar to each.

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Though they undoubtedly have a notion of one supreme God, the maker and –erver of the universe; yet all their visible worship centers on idols, of which they have multitudes, some of gold and low metals, and some of wood and stone

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The first Adeventurers inform us, that they were a wonderful ingenious People, inoffensive and hospitable; and, except the matter of human Sacrifices and their idolatrous Worship, which their Superstition requir’d, there was very little Reformation…

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OLD MEXICO or NEW SPAIN: The divinities of the native inhabitants of Mexico were clothed with terror, and delighted in vengeance.

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And on the Top of it was a great Stone Idol of the Moon. The Pyramid of the Sun was about a fourth part higher, and on the Top of it a vast Statue of the Sun. The Zeal of the first Bishop of Mexico, he tells us, had broke these Statues in Pieces, but…

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In the first place, the Spaniards, under presence of Zeal for destroying the Temples and Idols of the Mexicans, but, in reality, that none of the Gold and Silver, and other Treasures of the Mexicans might be concealed from them, pull’d down and…

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The Spaniards destroyed all the ancient monuments of the country for they looked upon them as superstitious memorials of Pagan idolatry

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“their general Prayers we made towards the rising Sun.”

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But I must find out Rome still among these Heathens and will the Papists be angry if I tell them plainly that what I mislike in these Idolatrous Mexicans, I mislike in them? For do not they deck and adorn their Idol Saints, as heathens did…

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Fasts, mortifications and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appease the wrath of their Gods. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable.

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I do not recollect one Relick, the Original of which, at least, has not been actually venerated, and almost worshiped, these several hundred Years, by this blind and deluded People, except that one of the Cheese and Butter made of the Virgin’s Milk,…

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One of the principal tributes which he imposed upon the people, was, a certain number of men to be sacrificed every year, to abate the fury of an ugly deformed idol, which was set up in the great temple of Mexico. Such numbers of poor victims, as the…

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De Solis, in his history of the conquest of Mexico, tells us, that the Indians sacrificed in that city every year, twenty thousand lives to their accursed idol.

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For they offer’d up humane Sacrifices, they brought even Children (whose tender Age raises pity even in an Enemy’s Heart) to their bloody Altars ; imploring the Mercy of the Gods by spilling the Blood of those, for the sparing of whose Lives their…

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Fasts, mortifications and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appease the wrath of their Gods. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable.

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Many different idols were found in particular places; but as for the sun, it was the general deity both in Mexico and Peru.

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He told the Emperor, that if he would permit him to erect the cross of Jesus Christ in the midst of this idolatrous temple, he would soon see that his false gods could not support its presence.

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Thus they distinguished their several Idols, and what they were Guardians of, by different Devices of Painting or carv’d Work, and their Temples were as august and costly as any in the World.

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In the first place, the Spaniards, under presence of Zeal for destroying the Temples and Idols of the Mexicans, but, in reality, that none of the Gold and Silver, and other Treasures of the Mexicans might be concealed from them, pull’d down and…

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