“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples who through their rituals were identified with the gods.”
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
The Mexican Dream, or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations
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