TEN BILLION SPACE COLONISTS

Hi Leonard,

>
> (OT: the Nahultal or Aztec would have a child sacrifice at the
>spring time,
> for a good crop of food and healthy children that year. Rome
altered >it into
> the Eucharistic Celebration; which kept the idea but shifted it
into >the
> worship of the Christ. Our Lady of Guadalupe Hidalgo commemorates
>that
> fusion -- a Nahultal received a vision of Her, verified by the
local >Roman
> authorities; he, when he went, was declared a Saint. IIRC.)
>

Very well said!

Rome superposed Christian believes to local religions. That's common
in every country of Latin America. In Chile we have the "Virgin of
La Tirana", in Bolivia exists the "Virgin of the Socavon" (Virgin of
the mine) and every single country has some syncretic idea, blessed
by the Church but that preserves old myths. Besides in Peru and
Bolivia the Natives sacrifices llamas in honor of Mother Land theses
days, not people.

This is not related with the issue but is very revealing of human
nature and religious attitudes.

Regards,

Omar Vega