The Nonsense of
Tonantzin
Pope
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VIRGIN
OF GUADALUPE IS AZTEC GODDESS
"...It is generally believed by anthropologists
that the Virgin of Guadalupe and Tonantzin are one in the
same, and that this is one of many examples of how ancient
Indian beliefs have become fused into the unique spiritual reality
of 'modern' Mexicans."
TONANTZIN AND
THE CONQUEST OF AZTLAN
"Today, Chicano
revolutionaries worship the original Tonantzin as the goddess
that will lead the children of Aztlan into the promised land,
not the Fransiscan's reconstructed blessed Virgin Mary. So powerful
is this idea that many Catholic parishes are co-opted by Chicano
revolutionaries. This is often accompanied by apparitions
of the Virgin of Guadalupe which have been associated with
very common things such as a mere knot in a tree or a flaw in
the glass of a department store window." |
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