VOLUME 1 Contents: Both volumes… 4 My take off… 7 Spaniards changed the story… 22 Mexico today in figures… 108 Mexico: Do you remember?… 109 Where did Mexicos cultures come from?… 110 Mexicos motherculture: Olmecs… 123 Where gods are born… 132 Where did the Aztecs come from?… 145 Huitzilopochtli – tribalgod, god of war, hummingbird…
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO AZTECS AND INCAS:MYTHS AND STORIES FROM MEXICO AND PERU
Frontcovers THE WORLD ACCORDING TO AZTECS AND INCAS: MYTHS AND STORIES FROM MEXICO AND PERU Vol. 1 and 2 Aztec Sun Stone in The Antropological Museum in Mexico City. Frontcoverphoto THE WORLD ACCORDING TO AZTECS AND INCAS: MYTHS AND STORIES FROM MEXICO AND PERU Vol. 1 Mikael Witte in front of a ceramic jaguar at…
TWO HISTORICAL PLAZAS: IN MEXICO AND IN PERU
Today, the populations of Mexico and Peru are results of meetings between Indians and Spaniards; in most, genes originate from them, and then there are genes caused by Africans, Danes, Frenchmen, Italians, Japanese, Chinese, Lebanese, Russians, Germans and others who sailed or were sailed to America. This cultural mixture has at the Tlatelolco, where the…
RESISTANCE TO THE SPANISH COLONY RULE
In Mexico, the Spanish puppet-Tlatoanis could not hinder the anger of large groups against the heavy forced labor, the social misery and the forced Christianizing. The first major Indian resistance was due to Caxcanes in present Mexican states of Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes. In 1540, they resisted the Spaniards slavelike conditions and executions by entrenching…
DESCENDANTS OF TLATOANIS AND SAPA INCAS
The Aztecs had been led by an chosen leader, Tlatoani. Although the Aztec electoral kingdom by no means was democratic, Aztecs knew that the ruler was a human being. As an important ritual, the Tlatoani and other leaders could dress as gods, representing gods in the rituals, but they never claimed to be divine. When…
CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF INDIANS
From the first day Columbus set foot on the American continent, he was convinced of the righteous in his intrusion. His conviction was based on the support of the Spanish Majesties and declarations of Popes that non-Christians could be taken as slaves – even though the Spanish Queen Isabella opposed Indian slavery, so the strangers…
INDIAN FAITH VERSUS CHRISTIANITY
Both Christians, Aztecs and Incas envisioned a divine creation, but they had different notions of the time for the creation. From the Bible, Christians knew that the creation had lasted six days. Irish Archbishop James Ussher would argue rationally for the Bible and calculated the first day of creation to have been on Sunday, October…
INCAWORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SPLIT INHERITANCE
The people of the Andes knew that a lightning in the sky could spread death just as a crashing tree could do, but they also knew that without rain that followed the lightning and without food growing on the ground, no one could survive. Life and death were connected. It was discovered that seeds could…
MY COMPARISONS – LONG LINES THROUGH THE COUNTRIES
Some hundreds Spanish conquistadors had faced many thousands of Indian warriors in 1519 in what we today call Mexico and in 1532 in what we call Peru. Initially 617 Spaniards in Mexico and 176 in Peru. Immediately an unequal fight in which the counterparts had different motivation, but where both parties fought fiercely; of course,…
PERU: THE WRITING KNOTS LOOSENED?
Perhaps there in the Inca Empire had existed royal kiphus with writings for the specially initiated, a secret wisdom of great royal times before the time of the Incas. Perhaps Valera had developed some writing systems to make the Inca civilization creditable in the eyes of ruling Christian Spaniards. And perhaps the existence of royal…
PERU: MISSION AND RESISTANCE
I have told about many Incas and Spaniards, about what motivated them and how they clashed bloodyly. Small stories that I hope have drawn an outline of the great. Now I would like to end with a story of a single mestizo – son of an Inca woman and a Spanish man – for what…
PERU: TO OLLANTAYTAMBO!
It’s May 13, 1536. Two Inca nobels, who believe there still are opportunities in cooperation with the Spaniards, have provided important information on Saqsaywamans layout, so that the Spaniards can now better plan the siege and their attacks. The war can become asymmetric. The Spaniards are met by stones and arrows from the top of…
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