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Podcast: New Books in Catholic Studies
Episode: Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth
Description: It turns out that our familiar narrative of the Virgin of Guadalupe, when Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 and left her image on his tilma, resembles an indigenous Mexican myth. And this myth of the Flower World in âCuicapeuhcayotlâ (âOrigin of Songsâ) has led some secular historians and anthropologists to conclude that the Catholic version must therefore be an imitation, a fabrication. Yet Joseph JuliĂĄn and Monique GonzĂĄlez concluded that the opposite was true. They argue âthat God had prepared the Mesoamerican people to receive Christianityâ that this Nahua myth had been inserted into history to make...