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The Mad God of the Yucatán

Published on Sun, Aug 11th 2024 Education Rectangular HD

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00:00 Introduction
17:17 The Maya
23:00 Oh Shoot, Brown People
34:55 A Crazy Theory about the Jews
43:55 The End is Nigh
56:37 Who's in Charge Here?
01:11:12 Daddy is Angry
01:19:09 Jungle Madness
01:20:57 The Inquisition of the Maya
01:30:46 The Sotuta "Confessions"
01:42:08 The Greatly-Exaggerated death of Diego de Landa
01:46:14 The "Account" of "Diego de Landa"

Today, DJ Peach Cobbler describes the theological, historical, political, and emotional motivations behind the infamous friar Diego de Landa's atrocities against the Maya. His infamous inquisition and auto da fe has gone down in history along with the man himself, due to his "authoring" of the Relaccion de los cosas de Yucatan. As with all things in history, simple explanations give way to complicated half-truths as we attempt to find the humanity in de Landa's inhumane actions.

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(I tried to use Google Doc's "Comment" feature to cite my claims more diligently, but later found that other users can't see those comments. I will add the script + all citations within the next few days.)

The Friar and the Maya by Restall, Solari, Chuchiak IV, Ardren

Ambivalent Conquests by Inga Clendinnen

The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World by John Leddy Phelan

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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction by Mathew Restall & Amara Solari

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Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica & the Andes Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone & Walter D. Mignolo

The exuberant imagination: blood libel and the myth of Maya ritual murder in the 1562 Sotuta confessions
by Alejandro Enriquez
PDF LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOD2HMSItGunO1REdQnM4oHXNhMWHhY4/view?usp=sharing

“The evangelical prophecies over Jerusalem have been fulfilled”:Joachim of Fiore, the Jews, Fray Diegode Landa and the Maya
by Mark Evan Davis

In Servitio Dei: Fray Diego de Landa, the Franciscan Order, and the Return of the Extirpattion of Idolatry in the Calonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1573-1579
by John F. Chuchiak IV