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Aztec and Maya Apocalypses - Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting (Hardcover)
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Aztec and Maya Apocalypses - Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting (Hardcover)
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The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the
Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has
evolved throughout Christianity's long history. Thus, when
ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the
Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political
and social circumstances. The religious texts in Aztec and Maya
Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, provide an
intriguing picture of this process-revealing the influence of
European, Aztec, and Maya worldviews on portrayals of Doomsday by
Spanish priests and Indigenous authors alike. The Apocalypse and
Christian eschatology played an important role in the conversion of
the Indigenous population and often appeared in the texts and
sermons composed for their consumption. Through these writings from
the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century-priests' "official"
texts and Indigenous authors' rendering of them-Mark Z. Christensen
traces Maya and Nahua influences, both stylistic and substantive,
while documenting how extensively Old World content and meaning
were absorbed into Indigenous texts. Visions of world endings and
beginnings were not new to the Indigenous cultures of America.
Christensen shows how and why certain formulations, such as the
Fifteen Signs of Doomsday, found receptive audiences among the Maya
and the Aztec, with religious ramifications extending to the
present day. These translated texts provide the opportunity to see
firsthand the negotiations that ecclesiastics and natives engaged
in when composing their eschatological treatises. With their
insights into how various ecclesiastics, Nahuas, and Mayas
preached, and even understood, Catholicism, they offer a uniquely
detailed, deeply informed perspective on the process of forming
colonial religion.
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