The Virgin of Guadalupe is Really Tonantzin In 1531, ten years after the Caucasion Invasion
an encounter took place on the Hill of Tepeyac. A man whom the Spaniards
called Juan Diego (He had a nahuatl name that the priests didn't record;
Juan Diego was the name given to him after his conversion.) was worshipping
our earth mother Tonantzin at an ancient shrine on top of Tepeyac hill.
It is at this point that Tonantzin appeared to Diego and speaking in
nahuatl, gave him a message to tell our people: she said that she had
not forgotten our people and that she would always watch over us. Diego
immediately went to his village and told everyone about the message
but nobody believed him. Diego went back several times and repeatedly
saw Tonantzin but he was unsuccessful in convincing the villagers of
what he saw. The villagers then went to the hill with him to see her,
but she did not appear. Diego now frustrated requested that Tonantzin
provide him with evidence of her presence so that he may convince the
villagers. Tonantzin then wrought a miracle: Diego looked down and saw
roses in full bloom at her feet. The area in which the roses grew was
a sterile area where only desert plants could grow. Diego then took
the roses in his cloak and presented them to the villagers and when
the roses fell, the image of Tonantzin appeared on his cloak. The villagers
were then convinced of the validity of the message and they immediately
traveled to Tepeyac hill to thank Tonantzin. The priests quickly heard
of this and they devised a plan to trick our people. They saw that our
people were devoutly making pilgrimages to the site and they announced
that the image was not Tonantzin at all, instead they said it was the
Virgin Mary. It was at this time that our resistance was strongest and
the priests could not effectively convert us to catholicism and this
is just what the priests needed to trick us. The priests immediately
destroyed the shrine to Tonantzin and built in its place a church dedicated
to the Virgin Mary. Bernardino de Sahagun had this to say of the new
church:
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