Workers at the Iztapalapa site. Photograph: Guillermo Olivares/EPA
Posted on 04/07/2006 10:12:21 AM PDT by NYer
Mexico City's cathedral is built on the site of an Aztec temple, and Mexico's patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, is believed to have first appeared shortly after the Spanish conquest on a hillside where the Aztecs worshipped their mother goddess.
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Ok..ive softened....let em all come here.
But maybe now they can work on finding their own civilization.
see? without celebrating diversity we'd never had this.
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More fact than theory, actually. I visited one such church on the Yucatan peninsula a few years back. Valladolid was built atop a Maya site, whose buildings were dismantled to reuse the stones to build the cathedral- you could still see distinctly NON-Spanish carvings on one stone in particular. Apart from the displacement and/or annexation of a "holy" site, it was also built next to a cenote which was the immediate area's source of fresh water. Another example is X-Cambo where a church is in the middle of the Maya ruins
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It's a practice that stretches back to Roman days in Spain (at the very least, likely even earlier). When Rome conquered parts of Spain, they built their temples on the local religious spots. Then when Rome converted to Christianity, many of those pagan temples were razed and churches built on the same spot. The Visigoths took over most of these churches after Rome fell.
Then the Muslims invaded, and built their mosques on top of the Visigoth churches, and then the Spanish reconquista did the same to the mosques (cf. Cordoba 'Mezquita', mosque built on a Visigothic church that was then turned back into a Christian church).
The Spanish reconquista ended at the same time Columbus discovered the Americas. In less than 30 years, Spain had conquered most of central Mexico so they just continued the practice that had been done in Europe for centuries. No real surprise.
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Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico
Associated Press | 2 hours, 7 minutes ago | MARK STEVENSON,
Posted on 04/05/2006 7:50:52 PM EDT by BenLurkin
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Sounds a lot like watching my two male dogs as they walk about the yard, marking and re-marking their spots.
I believe that St. Peters Church in Rome was the site of a temple dedicated to Mithras. Also, Chartres Cathedral was built atop a druidic site, Glastonbury was built atop a site revered by ancient Hibernians. I have read that in the 11th century, the pagan "Temple" at Uppsala in Sweden was demolished so that a cathedral could be constructed on the site.
In this way, we hope that the people, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may abandon their error and, flocking more readily to their accustomed resorts, may come to know and adore the true God.
- Gregory the Great, 601
Yeah, but like any other pyramid scheme, those that got in after AD 600 lost money.
St. Clement's in Rome is definitely over a Mithraic Temple. You can see it three levels down from the current Church on the normal tour.
The Parthenon in Athens was the Church of St. Mary the Ever Virgin (Ekklesia Parthena Maria). It was not even necessary to rename the Temple to make it a Church, since Blessed Mary has the same title as Athena - Parthena - Virgin.
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