archives@tulane.edu / During his tenure, Viceroy Francisco de Toledo implemented the administrative
reform of Spain’s South American territories (1569-1581). In the restructuring process,
Toledo carried out a series of inspection tours that gathered historical “evidence” of the
Inca’s tyranny. As a consequence, canonical texts about the history of Peru were written,
depicting the myths and rituals of the Incas from a Toledan perspective, which remain
influential today. Nevertheless, La Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (c. 1575),
by the Spanish priest Cristóbal de Molina, departs from standard portrayals of the Incas.
This thesis documents the ways in which Molina’s work interprets Inca sacred history as
compatible with Christian religion.
My dissertation, las fábulas y los ritos de los Incas: un estudio comparado sobre
la religión andina en el texto de Cristóbal de Molina y otras crónicas peruanas. consists
of four chapters. The first chapter is a survey of sixteenth-century Peruvian
historiography and the place of Molina’s work in relation to other Inca histories of the
time. The second chapter analyses Molina’s depiction of Incan oral histories in contrast
with contemporary Spanish accounts. The third chapter examines Molina’s representation
of Inca ceremonies and rituals, and their implications for the Christian indoctrination of
indigenous peoples. The fourth chapter explores the prominence of female religious
specialists, priestesses, and deities in Molina’s rendering of pre-Hispanic cult worship. / 1 / Liliana McGuffin-Naranjo
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_120498 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Contributors | McGuffin-Naranjo, Liliana (author), Charles, John (Thesis advisor), School of Liberal Arts Spanish and Portuguese (Degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | electronic, pages: 287 |
| Rights | No embargo, Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law. |
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