RHETOR 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Other Conquest, Isabel Moctezuma
1 Mar 2017
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Actec man reminisces about their fallen community after cortes and his men left the place in chaos. Act of killing young and retrieving the heart to be sacrificed to the gods. One of the spaniard attack the aztecs. Admonished preach by example you are behaving just like them. The friar performs a ritual forgiving the sins of the slain girl on the table. Spaniard shows aztec man the statue of mary, mother of god. Friar trying hard to convert the natives. One of his companions discovered a piece of natives; garment hidden in the friar"s clothes - stupid friar, you"ll never convert them . A native accused of betraying the spaniards taken to meet don cortes. Female interpreter - tells him not to speak and tells him not to judge her and what she"s doing. Cortes tells him that they have come to save your souls. Interpreter tecuichpo (also cortes" new mistress) tells cortes that the man is her half-brother.
