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19 de abr. de 2024 · Diego de Landa had paved the way a few generations before: “[w]e found a great number of books of these letters of theirs, and because they had nothing but superstitions and falsities of the devil (demonio), we burned them all, which they felt amazingly and gave them great sorrow” (Landa 1959:105, translation ours, from scanned version by Christian Prager; see also Restall et al. 2023:164 ...
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1 de may. de 2024 · In a single act of wanton zealotry, the Spanish friar Diego de Landa burned, by his own account, 27 priceless Maya screenfold manuscripts in front of the church in the 4,000-year-old town of Maní, on the Yucatan peninsula, on the evening of July 12th., 1562. It was an attempt to erase in the minds of the Maya peoples the memory of their gods ...
Hace 2 días · However, as part of his campaign to eradicate pagan rites, Bishop Diego de Landa ordered the collection and destruction of written Maya works, and a sizable number of Maya codices were destroyed. Later, seeking to use their native language to convert the Maya to Christianity, he derived what he believed to be a Maya "alphabet" (the so-called de Landa alphabet ).
19 de abr. de 2024 · 19/04/2024 09:38. El primero en dejar constancia de su tropiezo con las impresionantes ruinas de Chichén Itzá fue el español fray Diego de Landa, que describió, en 1566, los extraordinarios...
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In the book The Friar and the Maya, by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari, John F. Chuchiak IV, and Traci Ardren, the authors describe in detail the brutal inquisition led by the friar Diego de Landa against the Mayas of Yucatan in response to accusations of "idolatry": Within a few months, over 4,500 Maya men and women had been questioned under ...
5 de may. de 2024 · Diego de Landa tells us evildoers went to Metnal, where they were tormented, while the good went to a delightful heaven (Tozzer 1941: 131-132). Christian beliefs are most probably influencing Landa’s interpretation here, as well as many of those in other ethnohistoric sources which depict the Underworld as a suspiciously hellish place, frequently opposed by an equally suspicious celestial ...
27 de abr. de 2024 · El libro "La Casa Real de Cocom. Una historia de Yucatán", de Pérez de Heredia y Péter Bíró, recupera también algunos episodios un tanto olvidados, como el Auto de Fe de Sotuta, en el que Fray Diego de Landa exhumó los restos de Nachi Cocom y los quemó en una pira, pues descubrió que había cometido idolatrías en vida.
