*** Jesus fødsel i stalden. Det er pladsmanglen, der levendegøres i Mexico i ni dage før juleaften. Arrangementet kaldes posadas, afledt af det spanske ord for herberg, og det foregår ved, at en procession af børn bevæger sig gennem gaderne for – som aftalt – at besøge slægtninge, nære venner eller naboer. Alle går med…
Tag: Quetzalcoatl
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…
KRISTEN FORTOLKNING AF INDIANERE
Fra første dag Columbus satte foden på det amerikanske kontinent var han overbevist om det retfærdige i sin indtrængen. Hans overbevisning byggede på de spanske majestæters støtte og pavers erklæringer om at ikke-kristne måtte tages som slaver –selvom den spanske dronning Isabella modsatte sig indiansk slaveri, så de fremmede blev stemplet som vilde. Umiddelbart kan…
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…
INDIANERTRO VERSUS KRISTENTRO
Såvel kristne som aztekere og inkaer forestillede sig en guddommelig skabelse, men de tog udgangspunkt i forskellige skabelsestidspunkter. Ud fra Bibelen vidste kristne at skabelsen havde varet seks dage. Den irske ærkebiskop James Ussher ville argumentere rationelt for Bibelen og beregnede skabelsens første dag til at have været søndag den 23. oktober 4004 år før…
AZTECS FAITH OF PRE-DETERMINATION AND GROWTH
The Aztecs shared the divine world with other Mesoamerican civilizations. In common, there was only one god, Ometeotl, in the beginning, but this god was both male and female, who were called Tonacatecli and Tonacaçiguatl, ie. a duality. The two aspects of the deity had created themselves and had given birth to four gods: Tlaclau…
AZTEKERES TRO PÅ FORUDBESTEMMELSE OG VÆKST
Aztekerne delte gudeverden med andre mesoamerikanske civilisationer. Fælles var at i begyndelsen havde der kun været én gud, Ometeotl, men denne gud var både hankøn og hunkøn, som blev kaldt Tonacatecli og Tonacaçiguatl, altså en dualitet. Gudens to aspekter havde skabt sig selv og havde født fire guder: Tlaclau Queteztzatlipoca, Yayanque Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl og Omitecilt….
MEXICO: WAS CORTES RECOGNIZED AS GOD?
Next chapter of Codex Florentino: And after they had arrived at the palace, had walked into it, they immediately grabbed him, put him under guard, didn’t fail to watch Moctezuma carefully, and with him also Itzquauhtzin. But the others just fled. Apparently, Moctezuma has only been seized inside the palace! So anyway not on the…
MEXICO: BLEV CORTÉS SET SOM GUD?
Så fortsætter Codex Florentino: Derpå greb de hans arm; og sådan kommer de gående sammen med ham; de lægger hånd på ham, sådan viser de ham deres kærlighed. Og spanierne ser på ham, tager ham grundigt i øjesyn, de går videre til fods, de stiger til hest, de stiger af igen, for at se på…
MEXICO: WHAT DID AZTECS TELL ABOUT QUETZALCOATL?
Aztecs imagined that there had been five processes of creation and that after each of the first four, the world had collapsed and a new one had been created. Therefore, the Aztecs called their own age The Fifth Sun, which they also assumed would end violently. Presumably there would follow a Sixth Sun – but…
MEXICO: HVAD FORTALTE AZTEKERNE OM QUETZALCOATL?
Aztekerne forestillede sig at der havde været fem skabelsesprocesser, og at efter hver af de fire første var verden styrtet sammen og en ny blevet skabt. Derfor kaldte aztekerne deres egen tidsalder Den femte Sol, som de antog også ville slutte voldsomt. Antagelig ville der følge en sjette Sol – men det ville ske uden…
MEXICO: WHERE GODS ARE BORN
Teotihuacán was a civilization that became crucial to the development in Mexico. People not only built the Pyramid of the Sun – which you may have long dreamed of after you started planning your trip to Mexico – but established two thousand years ago a vast empire with the largest capital of America before the…
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