1. The document describes the establishment of the Great Peace by war captains who would cause all weapons of war to be taken from conquered nations. Those nations would then observe the rules of the Great Peace but could continue their own internal governments if consistent with ceasing strife with other nations.
2. It then describes a prophecy of a coming blight that would wither the land and cause people to be scattered in the forests.
3. The last part describes the construction of a temple by master workmen, including the fashioning of sacred emeralds, smelting of gold and silver, and teaching of trades and artifices. Quetzalcoatl is credited as the master workman who began all
1. The document describes the establishment of the Great Peace by war captains who would cause all weapons of war to be taken from conquered nations. Those nations would then observe the rules of the Great Peace but could continue their own internal governments if consistent with ceasing strife with other nations.
2. It then describes a prophecy of a coming blight that would wither the land and cause people to be scattered in the forests.
3. The last part describes the construction of a temple by master workmen, including the fashioning of sacred emeralds, smelting of gold and silver, and teaching of trades and artifices. Quetzalcoatl is credited as the master workman who began all
1. The document describes the establishment of the Great Peace by war captains who would cause all weapons of war to be taken from conquered nations. Those nations would then observe the rules of the Great Peace but could continue their own internal governments if consistent with ceasing strife with other nations.
2. It then describes a prophecy of a coming blight that would wither the land and cause people to be scattered in the forests.
3. The last part describes the construction of a temple by master workmen, including the fashioning of sacred emeralds, smelting of gold and silver, and teaching of trades and artifices. Quetzalcoatl is credited as the master workman who began all
1. The document describes the establishment of the Great Peace by war captains who would cause all weapons of war to be taken from conquered nations. Those nations would then observe the rules of the Great Peace but could continue their own internal governments if consistent with ceasing strife with other nations.
2. It then describes a prophecy of a coming blight that would wither the land and cause people to be scattered in the forests.
3. The last part describes the construction of a temple by master workmen, including the fashioning of sacred emeralds, smelting of gold and silver, and teaching of trades and artifices. Quetzalcoatl is credited as the master workman who began all
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1 Quoted in History of Latin American Civilization : Sources aud lnterpretation : The Colonial Experience, vol. I.
edited by Lewis Hanke (Boston, 1973), p.3.
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When peace shall have been established by the termination of the war.. .then .the war captain shall cause all weapons of war to be taken from the nation. Then shall the Great Peace be established and the nation shall observe all the rulrs of the Great Peace for all time to come. Whenever a foreign nation is conquered or has by their (sic) own free will except the Great Peace, their own system of internal government may continue far as consistent but they must cease all strife with other nations SO
a Samuel, Eliot Morison, The Oxford History bf the American People (Boston: Samuel Eliot Morison, 1965) p. 3.
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Eat, eat while there is bread, Drink, drink while there is water. A day comes when a blight shall wither the land When rain shall fall upon all things....when eyes shall be close in dead Father, son, and grandson hanging dead on the same tree. When rain shall fall upon things. And the people he scattered abroad in the forest.
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1. Patronage of Guatemala 2. The cities in the Usumacinat valley of the Maxican state of Chiapas
There in grandeur reared his temple, Reared aloft its mighty ramparts. Reaching upwards toward the heavens, Wonderous stout and tall the walls were, High the skyward climbing stairway, With its steps so long and narrow That there scarce was room far stepping.
As Master workmen worked they, Fashioned they the sacred emoalds, Smelted they both gold and silver, Other trades and arts they mastered.... and in Q. etzalcoatl all these Arts and crafts had their beginning, He the master workman taught them All their trades and artifices
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24 Atkinson, op. cit., p. 62. Ibid. pp. 63-64.
69
70
tMi;d~&~~ fl.ff. 1 4 6 9 a Herring, op. cit., pp. 72-79.
Havelock Ellis, The Soul of Spain (Boston, 1908), p. 42. Herring, op. cit., p. 76.
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op. crt, pp. U-36. Herring, op. cit., p. )?. op. cI,t., pp. uii-ss. xx-xxi.
43 GJ George 491-521.
Eaton Simpson, The Relief System of Haitian Voodoo %U
Peoples and 19711,
Cultures of the Caribbean edited by Michael M. Horowitz. (New York,
Pp.
Herring., op. cit., p. 114. E. Bradford Burns, Latin America : A Concise Interpretive History., (New Jersey, pp. 21-22.
