The Great White Gods
Author | : Eduard Stucken |
Publisher | : New York, Farrar & Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eduard Stucken |
Publisher | : New York, Farrar & Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eduard Stucken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Stefan Heep |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2019-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527539962 |
Most American schoolbooks claim that the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II confused the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés for the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, a fabulous, fair-skinned priest king of ancient times who had promised to return, which is why Moctezuma voluntarily surrendered his mighty empire. In the past, the tale of Quetzalcoatl has inspired many people to speculate about pre-Columbian invaders from the Old World. It has also been abused as another presumed proof of white supremacy. Indigenous traditions, however, saw a Mexican Messiah who played an important part in constructing the Mexican national identity. This book demonstrates that the story of the returning god is a product of “fake news” uttered by Cortés. It does so by analysing the most important sources of the Quetzalcoatl-tale. A systematic context-enlargement that also includes ethnographic information and contemporary history reveals why and how Cortés constructed this story, and why and how the Aztec elite adopted it. This method proves to be an epistemological tool which allows researchers to identify pre-Hispanic information in ethnohistorical texts of colonial times. As a result, the true Quetzalcoatl behind the legend comes to light.
Author | : Robert Marx |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517098523 |
Author | : William Le Queux |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781090171054 |
"Perhaps creed has," he exclaimed rather sadly. "But I make no pretence of being what I am not. Your religion interests me, although, as you know, I have never been taught the belief you have. My gods are in the air, in the trees, in the sky. I believe what I have been taught; I pray in silence and the great god Zomara hears me even though I am separated from my race by yonder great ocean. Yet I sometimes think I cannot act as you white people do, that, after all, what my enemies say is true. I am still what you term a savage, although wearing the clothes of your civilization."
Author | : Donald W. Hemingway |
Publisher | : Council Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781555177478 |
In the ancient history of Latin America, myths and legends abound of the visitation of Quetzalcoatl, often referred to as the Bearded White God. the Bearded White God of Ancient America relives and explains Cortez' stunning conquest of the vast Aztec empire in the context of the Quetzalcoatl myths and legends. This book gives you a great source for the ancient Latin American Quetzalcoatl myths and legends-from the rare remaining writings of the great Aztec and Incan empires to the writings of the early Spanish colonial priests, soldiers, and colonists who had access to those original native writings not destroyed in the conquest. the Bearded White God of Ancient America concludes with an intriguing study of the Quetzalcoatl myths in the context of LDS theology. Key Features: Addresses the following questions about the legend of Quetzalcoatl: Who was he? When did he appear? Where did he come from? Why did he come? What did he teach? Where did he go? a great source for the ancient Latin American Quetzalcoatl myths and legends. Concludes with an intriguing study of the Quetzalcoatl myths in the context of LDS theology.
Author | : Robert F. Marx |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
One of the pioneers of underwater archaeology--and an explorer-adventurer in the grand style--recalls his 35 years of searching for and finding evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the Old and New World. Two black-and-white photo inserts.
Author | : Robert F. Marx |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anna Della Subin |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250296889 |
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.
Author | : Rafe Martin |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590395007 |
Rafe Martin and David Shannon reunite in this folktale interpretation of a dramatic flood myth set amidst the unmatched beauty of the Hawaiian Islands. In a country whose ruler is cruel and whose people are hardened, two children remain warm-hearted and exuberant. One day after freeing a shark trapped in the shallows, the children are so excited that they touch the King's forbidden drum. They are thrown into prison, and no one will listen to their parents' pleas for mercy. So, at great risk, they go to the Shark God himself, and he takes retribution, causing a great flood that leaves only the good family behind, and clears the way for a better, kinder future.