HIST 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mixcoatl, Ibero-America, Repartimiento
3 Nov 2018
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Quecholli festival (oct 24 - nov 20) Dedicated to mixcoatl and dead warriors, offerings of food and symbolic bundles of arrows and torches. Tititl festival (dec 19 - jan 27) Dedicated to women who had died in childbirth, special bread prepared as offerings. Lamps set out by people to guide their deceased relatives home for a night to share a symbolic feast. Roman festival dedicated to bacchus, god of life and renewal. Kind of day of the dead , left offerings on graces so that the dead wouldn"t trouble the living. To honor all saints and martyrs, known and unknown. To pray for intercession on behalf of souls in purgatory. Encomiendas are no longer inheritable beyond one life. Tenure of original holder, later amended to allowed inheritance into a second life. No strictly enforced after several disturbances by disaffected encomenderos and their supports. Institution finally fading in the late 16th century, correlated with loss of life due to outbreaks.
