Duncan Craig Wrote:
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> Bernard passed away?
I'm sorry, yes - [
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> Thanks for reprinting Dr. Townsends paper. If I
> could point you to one sentence that sums up my
> contention that Eurocentrism isn't just a relic of
> the nineteenth century>
>
> "Many aspects of the usual post-conquest
> uest description of Quetzalcoatl-that he was a
> peace-loving god who abhorred human sacrifice- for
> example,are obviously European mythological
> constructs-
> thus rendering the whole story somewhat suspect."
>
> Obviously? Really?
Well: the paper's conclusion, certainly.
According to Wiki:
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The exact significance and attributes of Quetzalcoatl varied somewhat between civilizations and through history ...
... a majority of Mesoamericanist scholars such as Matthew Restall (2003, 2018[34]), James Lockhart (1994), Susan D. Gillespie (1989), Camilla Townsend (2003a, 2003b), Louise Burkhart, Michel Graulich and Michael E. Smith (2003) among others, consider the "Quetzalcoatl/Cortés myth" as one of many myths about the Spanish conquest which have risen in the early post-conquest period ...
... In a 1986 paper for Sunstone, he [Brant Gardner] noted that during the Spanish Conquest, the Native Americans and the Catholic priests who sympathized with them felt pressure to link Native American beliefs with Christianity, thus making the Native Americans seem more human and less savage. Over time, Quetzalcoatl's appearance, clothing, malevolent nature, and status among the gods were reshaped to fit a more Christian framework.[40]
So perhaps it depends which version of Quetzalcoatl is being considered.
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