Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity (Latin American Originals)

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Gods of the Andes provides the first English translation of the earliest lengthy description of Inca religion, An Account of the Ancient Customs of the Natives of Peru (1594). The Account is a part of a Jesuit tradition of ecumenical works on religion that encompasses the more famous writings of Matteo Ricci in China and Roberto de Nobili in India. It includes original descriptions of numerous aspects of Inca religion, including human sacrifice, using hallucinogens, mummification rituals, the existence of transgendered priests within the ancient Andes, divination rituals in response to animal entrails, oracles, burials, and confession.

In her introductory chapters, Sabine Hyland presents the controversial life of the ascribed creator, Blas Valera, a Jesuit who used to be in the end imprisoned and exiled by the Jesuits for his “heretical” belief that the Incas worshipped the similar author god the Christians did; examines the Account within the light of other colonial writings about the Incas; and outlines what we know about Inca religion through other sources, comparing Valera’s version to those of other writers.

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