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Alma

If we look into that Part of the World, which, for so many Ages, lay undiscovered, in China, Peru, and Mexico, as well as in Brasil, Canada, Virginia, &c. the People, though severed from the rest of the World by the vast Ocean, and having no…

Etiquetas: Creencias, Muerte, Pueblo joven, Religión

Almas

The people of Tlascala believed that the souls of the persons of rank went, after their death, to inhabit the bodies of beautiful and sweet singing birds, and those of nobler quadrupeds; while the souls of inferior persons were supposed to pass into…

Etiquetas: Antropología, Muerte, Religión

Cortés, Hernán

" Cortes , ashamed of a scene of horrid, rescued the royal victim from the hands of his torturers, and prolonged a life for new indignities and sufferings. Cortes died in Spain, in the year 1547, in the sixty-second year of his age. Envied by his…

Etiquetas: Cortés, Hernán, Geografía, Muerte

Diosa Avaricia

These Adventurers, says the good Bishop, invented such stories to justify their own Barbarity. It may truly be said, that the Spaniards, since their Arrival in the Indies, have annually sacrificed to their Goddess Avarice, more People than the…

Etiquetas: Antropología, Conquista, Etnología, Leyenda negra, Muerte, Religión

Españoles

These Adventurers, says the good Bishop, invented such stories to justify their own Barbarity. It may truly be said, that the Spaniards, since their Arrival in the Indies, have annually sacrificed to their Goddess Avarice, more People than the…

Etiquetas: Antropología, Conquista, Etnología, Leyenda negra, Muerte, Religión

Españoles

Nor are they Foes my Clemency defends, Until they hace refus’d the Name of Friends: Draw up our Spaniards by themselves, then fire Our Guns on all who do not straight retire.

Etiquetas: Batallas, Conquista, Literatura, Muerte, Teatro

Huitzilopochtli

Conspicuous in the front of danger stood the brave Alonzo. Terrible as a flame of fire, and steady as a rock in the ocean. Thou wouldst have thought it had been Visiliputsli, the great god of battles, dispensing death.

Etiquetas: Batallas, Dioses, Literatura, Muerte

Nuevo mundo

The variety of plagues which the ambitious Europeans brought upon the inhabitants of the New World were undoubtedly a very great evil;

Etiquetas: Corrupción, Literatura, Muerte, Salud

Religión

They insist, that a People, which made the sacrificing their own Species the chief part of their Religión, ought to have been extirpated

Etiquetas: Conquista, Historia, Justificación, Muerte, Religión, Sacrificios humanos

Sacrificios

These Adventurers, says the good Bishop, invented such stories to justify their own Barbarity. It may truly be said, that the Spaniards, since their Arrival in the Indies, have annually sacrificed to their Goddess Avarice, more People than the…

Etiquetas: Antropología, Conquista, Etnología, Leyenda negra, Muerte, Religión

Sacrificios

They insist, that a People, which made the sacrificing their own Species the chief part of their religion, ought to have been extirpated.

Etiquetas: Conquista, Historia, Justificación, Muerte, Religión

Sepulcros

That within the Pyramid were several Vaults, where the Kings had been buried; for which reason the Road it was called Micaotli, or the Highway of the Dead; and about it were several little Mounts, or Tumuli, supposed to be the Burying-places of their…

Etiquetas: Arqueología, Ceremonias, Costumbres, Muerte, Religión

Sol

The Sun, my Father, bears my Soul on high: He lets me down a Beam, and mounted there He draws back, and pulls me through the Air: I in the Eastern Parts, and rising Sky, You in Heav’ns Downfall, and the West must lie.

Etiquetas: Guerra, Literatura, Muerte, Teatro

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