The book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans : Containing An Account of Their Rites And Superstitions : An Anonymous Hispano-Mexican Manuscript Preserved At the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy
The book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans : Containing An Account of Their Rites And Superstitions : An Anonymous Hispano-Mexican Manuscript Preserved At the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy
Zelia Nuttall
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30 r. ; and on p. 16 r. the following statements are made: "The Indians named this festival Xilomaniztli, but the people of Mexico and some others name it Alcaualo." ..." In Mexico they drown these children in canoes . . ." The following passage conveys the impression that the anonymous author could not have been a friar, for on p. 52 r. he pro- xvi tests against the misapplication by " the friars " of the native term Mictlan, which, he writes, " was used by the natives merely to designate the ...place to which the dead go. Some native interpreters have used this word to designate 'hell/ which is a mistake, because the Indians had no analogous word. Therefore when the friars preach and tell them that if they are bad guardians of the faith they will go to * Mictlan/ it signifies nothing to them. . . . One should tell them that they will go to 'the house of the devil.' . . ." It seems almost impossible to reconcile a statement such as this, which reveals an intimate knowledge of the meaning of a native word, with the gross linguistic mistake committed, for instance, on p.
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