The Conquest of New Granada
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" 2 The temples that they erected to the sun were very different from the great stone edifices that the conquerors found to the same deity in Cuzco, Quito, and in Mexico. They would appear to have been but mere straw huts. 3 In them were hung up offerings of thin gold plates, fine cotton cloths, emeralds and coloured beads. They also burned a perfume to their gods, made of a fruit called moque, that gave out a most abominable stench. 4 Children were sacrificed in their temples, and their bodies... left out on the hills for the sun to devour. In no other part of America does it appear that human victims were offered up to the sun, though certainly in Mexico the God of War was thus propitiated. Generally the Sun-god appears to have been rather an abstraction, a sort of summing up of the powers of nature, rather than a finite deity. Amongst the Muyscas, for the Chibchas 5 appear to have had two names, this was far from the case.
The Muyscas certainly had made some progress towards civilization and a settled polity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" 2 The temples that they erected to the sun were very different from the great stone edifices that the conquerors found to the same deity in Cuzco, Quito, and in Mexico. They would appear to have been but mere straw huts. 3 In them were hung up offerings of thin gold plates, fine cotton cloths, emeralds and coloured beads. They also burned a perfume to their gods, made of a fruit called moque, that gave out a most abominable stench. 4 Children were sacrificed in their temples, and their bodies... left out on the hills for the sun to devour. In no other part of America does it appear that human victims were offered up to the sun, though certainly in Mexico the God of War was thus propitiated. Generally the Sun-god appears to have been rather an abstraction, a sort of summing up of the powers of nature, rather than a finite deity. Amongst the Muyscas, for the Chibchas 5 appear to have had two names, this was far from the case.
The Muyscas certainly had made some progress towards civilization and a settled polity.
What to read after The Conquest of New Granada?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by R B Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham to read onlineMoreLess
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