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And thus, by transforming the pre-Hispanic mythical discourse into an anti-historical conception, the chroniclers also carved the shape of what would later be the national and regional Andean history. In other words, by justifying their prejudice in the pre-Hispanic myth they somehow constructed the current myth in their origins.
The legends relate that Tecun Uman entered battle adorned with precious quetzal feathers, and that his nahual (animal spirit guide), also a quetzal bird, accompanied him during the battle. In the midst of the battle, Alvarado and Tecun Uman met face to face, each with weapon in hand. Alvarado was clad in armor and mounted on his warhorse. As horses were not native to the Americas and peoples of Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden of their own, Tecun Uman assumed they were one being and killed Alvarado's horse. Another version says he merely attacked the horse in an attempt to knock Alvarado down, having no prior illusion that both man and animal to be one and the same. Tecun Uman quickly realized his error and turned for a second attack but Alvarado's thrust his spear into his opponent's heart. The K'iche' prince's nahual, filled with grief, landed on the fallen hero's chest, staining its breast feathers red with blood, and thereafter died. From that day on, all male quetzals bear a scarlet breast and their song has not been heard since.
And I was given a glimpse of what lay under a upmarket hotel nearly 20 years ago and everything is in the hush hush !
....I only know what I saw with my own eyes and what is being kept from the public ,....
....I have been a lot lot deeper in that city and seen what is underground
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: cooperton
Regardless, the Incans did not adopt Christianity, their flood account would very independent
They eventually did.
Besides, the Inca Flood isn't global, just around Lake Titicaca.
ETA: In my endless search for the truth (smirk), I found this, it is a PDF in spanish with just the abstract translated to english:
Wiracocha, Catholic pastoral and mythology of Titicaca
Considerations from mythography and the andinistic
I think the abstract lays it out without mincing words
This work deals with the origin of the myth of Wiracocha, invented by the Spanish-andinistic chronicles of the 16th and 17th centuries. It is, therefore, a study from the viewpoint of mythography and Andean ethnohistory. The thesis of this paper is that the invention of such myth provided the natives quechuas and aymaras with the ideological basis for a better reception of some articles of the Christian faith. At the same time, the invented myth, together with other local traditions, gave rise to a glorious history of the origins of these peoples.
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: stonerwilliam
I don't know what the picture in your first post is showing, any chance of telling us please?
And I was given a glimpse of what lay under a upmarket hotel nearly 20 years ago and everything is in the hush hush !
What did lie 'under an upmarket hotel'?
....I only know what I saw with my own eyes and what is being kept from the public ,....
So why don't you share with us and explain how it ties in with the topic of this thread?
....I have been a lot lot deeper in that city and seen what is underground
And what is underground?
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: stonerwilliam
Thats Paris (London is the same) and likem any major European cities, has thousands of years of building on top of building, going all the way back to the Neolithic, when the cities were first settled.
originally posted by: andy06shake
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: cooperton
It is right there in the abstract, they created myths that would win their hearts and minds.
Basically what the authors of that paper did was find the paper trail left by the catholic church in how they did that.
I guess you can try google translate. Not perfect but I'm sure it isn't going to tell you it didn't work and that they rejected the church because the fact is that we can see peruvians out en masse praising Jesús.
originally posted by: andy06shake
We sure have, and you still fail to be able to comprehend the sheer lunacy behind such a magic boat.
And refuse to accept the reality of the situation.
If you imagine there to be plenty of room on Noah's superyacht then please provide a diagram/plan showing how you aim to accommodate and cater to the needs of all those animals, on a leaking wooden boat, with structurally compromised integrity, half the size of Titanic, in high seas and storm, and with only 8 people on board.