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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Dedication
FIRST VOICES
The Creation
Time
The Sun and the Moon
The Clouds
The Wind
The Rain
The Rainbow
Day
Night
The Stars
The Milky Way
The Evening Star
Language
Fire
The Forest
The Cedar
The Guaiacum Tree
Colors
Love
The Rivers and the Sea
The Tides
Snow
The Flood
The Tortoise
The Parrot
The Hummingbird
The Night Bird (Urutaú)
The Ovenbird
The Crow
The Condor
The Jaguar
The Bear
The Crocodile
The Armadillo
The Rabbit
The Snake
The Frog
The Bat
Mosquitos
Honey
Seeds
Corn
Tobacco
Maté
Cassava
The Potato
The Kitchen
Music
Death
Resurrection
Magic
Laughter
Fear
Authority
Power
War
Parties
Conscience
The Sacred City
Pilgrims
The Promised Land
Dangers
The Spider Web
The Prophet
OLD NEW WORLD
1492: The Ocean Sea - The Sun Route to the Indies
1492: Guanahaní - Columbus
1493: Barcelona - Day of Glory
1493: Rome - The Testament of Adam
1493: Huexotzingo - Where Is the Truth? Where Are the Roots?
1493: Panto - Everybody Pays Taxes
1493: Santa Cruz Island - An Experience of Miquele de Cuneo from Savona
1495: Salamanca - The First Word from America
1495: La Isabela - Caonabó
1496: La Concepción - Sacrilege
1498: Santo Domingo - Earthly Paradise
1499: Granada - Who Are Spaniards?
1500: Florence - Leonardo
1506: Valladolid - The Fifth Voyage
1506: Tenochtitlán - The Universal God
1511: Guauravo River - Agüeynaba
1511: Aymaco - Becerrillo
1511: Yara - Hatuey
1511: Santo Domingo - The First Protest
1513: Cuareca - Leoncico
1513: Gulf of San Miguel - Balboa
1514: Sinú River - The Summons
1514: Santa Maria del Darién - For Love of Fruit
1515: Antwerp - Utopia
1519: Frankfurt - Charles V
1519: Acla - Pedrarias
1519: Tenochtitlán - Portents of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air
1519: Cempoala - Cortés
1519: Tenochtitlán - Moctezuma
1519: Tenochtitlán - The Capital of the Aztecs
1520: Teocalhueyacan - "Night of Sorrow"
1520: Segura de la Frontera - The Distribution of Wealth
1520: Brussels - Dürer
1520: Tlaxcala - Toward the Reconquest of Tenochtitlán
1521: Tlatelolco - Sword of Fire
1521: Tenochtitlán - The World Is Silenced in the Rain
1521: Florida - Ponce de León
1522: Highways of Santo Domingo - Feet
1522: Seville - The Longest Voyage Ever Made
1523: Cuzco - Huaina Cápac
1523: Cuauhcapolca - The Chief's Questions
1523: Painala - Malinche
1524: Quetzaltenango - The Poet Will Tell Children the Story of This Battle
1524: Utatlán - The Vengeance of the Vanquished
1524: Scorpion Islands - Communion Ceremony
1525: Tuxkahá - Cuauhtémoc
1526: Toledo - The American Tiger
1528: Madrid - To Loosen the Purse Strings
1528: Tumbes - Day of Surprises
1528: Bad Luck Island - "People Very Generous with What They Have ..."
1531: Orinoco River - Diego de Ordaz
1531: Mexico City - The Virgin of Guadelupe
1531: Santo Domingo - A Letter
1531: Serrana Island - The Castaway and the Other
1532: Cajamarca - Pizarro
1533: Cajamarca - The Ransom
1533: Cajamarca - Atahualpa
1533: Xaquixaguana - The Secret
1533: Cuzco - The Conquerors Enter the Sacred City
1533: Riobamba - Alvarado
1533: Quito This City Kills Itself
1533: Barcelona - The Holy Wars
1533: Seville - The Treasure of the Incas
1534: Riobamba - Inflation
1535: Cuzco - The Brass Throne
1536: Mexico City - Motolinía
1536: Machu Picchu - Manco Inca
1536: Valley of Ulúa - Gonzalo Guerrero
1536: Culiacán - Cabeza de Vaca
1537: Rome - The Pope Says They Are Like Us
1538: Santo Domingo - The Mirror
1538: Valley of Bogotá - Blackbeard, Redbeard, Whitebeard
1538: Masaya Volcano - Vulcan God of Money
1541: Santiago de Chile - Inés Suárez
1541: Rock of Nochistlán - Never
1541: Old Guatemala City - Beatriz
1541: Cabo Frío - At Dawn, the Cricket Sang
1542: Quito - El Dorado
1542: Conlapayara - The Amazons
1542: Iguazú River - In Broad Daylight
1543: Cubagua - The Pearl Fishers
1544: Machu Picchu - The Stone Throne
1544: Campeche - Las Casas
1544: Lima - Carvajal
1545: Royal City of Chiapas - The Bad News Comes from Valladolid
1546: Potosí - The Silver of Potosí
1547: Valparaíso - The Parting
1548: Xaquixaguana - The Battle of Xaquixaguana Is Over
1548: Xaquixaguana - The Executioner
1548: Xaquixaguana - On Cannibalism in America
1548: Guanajuato - Birth of the Guanajuato Mines
1549: La Serena - The Return
1552: Valladolid - He Who Always Took the Orders Now Gives Them
1553: The Banks of the San Pedro River - Miguel
1553: Tucapel - Lautaro
1553: Tucapel - Valdivia
1553: Potosí - Beauty and the Mayor
To the Strains of the Barrel Organ a Blind Man Sings to Her Who Sleeps Alone
1553: Potosí - The Mayor and the Gallant
1554: Cuzco - The Mayor and the Ears
1554: Lima - The Mayor and the Bill Collector
1554: Mexico City - Sepúlveda
1556: Asunción, Paraguay - Conquistadoras
1556: Asunción, Paraguay - "The Paradise of Mahomet"
1556: La Imperial - Mariño de Lobera
1558: Cañete - The War Goes On
1558: Michmaloyan - The Tzitzimes
1558: Yuste - Who Am I? What Have I Been?
1559: Mexico City - The Mourners
1560: Huexotzingo - The Reward
1560: Michoacán - Vasco de Quiroga
1561: Villa de los Bergantines - The First Independence of America
1561: Nueva Valencia del Rey - Aguirre
1561: Nueva Valencia del Rey - From Lope de Aguirre's letter to King Philip II
1561: Barquisimeto - Order Restored
1562: Maní - The Fire Blunders
1563: Arauco Fortress - The History That Will Be
1564: Plymouth - Hawkins
1564: Bogotá - Vicissitudes of Married Life
1565: Road to Lima - The Spy
1565: Yauyoa - That Stone Is Me
1565: Mexico City - Ceremony
1566: Madrid - The Fanatic of Human Dignity
1566: Madrid - Even if You Lose, It's Still Worthwhile
1568: Los Teques - Guaicaipuro
1568: Mexico City - The Sons of Cortés
1569: Havana - St. Simon Against the Ants
1571: Mexico City - Thou Shalt Inform On Thy Neighbor
1571: Madrid - Who Is Guilty, Criminal or Witness?
1572: Cuzco - Túpac Amaru I
1574: Mexico City - The First Auto-da-Fè in Mexico
1576: Guanajuato - The Monks Say:
1576: Xochimilco - The Apostle Santiago versus the Plague
1577: Xochimilco - St. Sebastian versus the Plague
1579: Quito - Son of Atahualpa
1580: Buenos Aires - The Founders
1580: London - Drake
1582: Mexico City - What Color Is a Leper's Skin?
1583: Copacabana - God's Aymara Mother
1583: Santiago de Chile - He Was Free for a While
1583: Tlatelolco - Sahagún
1583: Ácoma - The Stony Kingdom of Cíbola
1586: Cauri - The Pestilence
1588: Quito - Grandson of Atahualpa
1588: Havana - St. Martial versus the Ants
1589: Cuzco - He Says He Had the Sun
1592: Lima - An Auto-da-Fé in Lima
1593: Guarapari - Anchieta
1596: London - Raleigh
1597: Seville - A Scene in Jail
1598: Potosí - History of Floriana Rosales, Virtuous Woman of Potosí
1598: Panama City - Times of Sleep and Fate
1599: Quito - The Afro-Indians of Esmeraldas
1599: Chagres River - The Wise Don't Talk
1599: La Imperial - Flaming Arrows
1599: Santa Marta - They Make War to Make Love
1600: Santa Marta - They Had a Country
1600: Potosí - The Eighth Wonder of the World
1600: Mexico City - Carriages
1601: Valladolid - Quevedo
1602: Recife - First Expedition Against Palmares
1603: Rome - The Four Parts of the World
1603: Santiago de Chile - The Pack
1605: Lima - The Night of the Last Judgment
1607: Seville The Strawberry
1608: Puerto Príncipe - Silvestre de Balboa
1608: Seville - Mateo Alemán
1608: Córdoba - The Inca Garcilaso
1609: Santiago de Chile - How to Behave at the Table
1611: Yarutini - The Idol-Exterminator
1612: San Pedro de Omapacha - The Beaten Beats
1613: London - Shakespeare
1614: Lima - Minutes of the Lima Town Council: Theater Censorship Is Born
1614: Lima - Indian Dances Banned in Peru
1615: Lima Guamán Poma
1616: Madrid - Cervantes
1616: Potosí - Portraits of a Procession
1616: Santiago Papasquiaro - Is the Masters' God the Slaves' God?
1617: London - Whiffs of Virginia in the London Fog
1618: Lima - Small World
1618: Luanda - Embarcation
1618: Lima - Too Dark
1620: Madrid - The Devil's Dances Come from America
1622: Seville - Rats
1624: Lima - People for Sale
1624: Lima - Black Flogs Black
1624: Lima - The Devil at Work
1624: Seville - Last Chapter of the 'life of the Scoundrel"
1624: Mexico City - A River of Anger
1625: Mexico City - How Do You Like Our City?
1625: Samayac - Indian Dances Banned in Guatemala
1626: Potosí - A Wrathful God
1628: Chiapas - Chocolate and the Bishop
1628: Madrid - Blue Blood for Sale
1629: Las Cangrejeras Bascuñán
1629: Banks of the Bío-Bío River - Putapichun
1629: Banks of River Imperial - Maulicán
1629: Repocura Region - To Say Good-Bye
1630: Motocintle - They Won't Betray Their Dead
1630: Lima - Maria, Queen of the Boards
1631: Old Guatemala - A Musical Evening at the Concepción Convent
1633: Pinola - Gloria in Excelsis Deo
1634: Madrid - Who Was Hiding Under Your Wife's Cradle?
1636: Quito - The Third Half
1637: Mouth of the River Sucre - Dieguillo
1637: Massachusetts Bay - "God is an Englishman,”
1637: Mystic Fort - From the Will of John Underhill, Puritan of Connecticut, Concerning a Massacre of Pequot Indians
1639: Lima - Martín de Porres
1639: San Miguel de Tucumán - From a Denunciation of the Bishop of Tucumán, Sent to the Inquisition Tribunal in Lima
1639: Potosí - Testament of a Businessman
1640: São Salvador de Bahia - Vieira
1641: Lima - Avila
1641: Mbororé - The Missions
1641: Madrid - Eternity Against History
1644: Jamestown - Opechancanough
1645: Quito - Mariana de Jesús
1645: Potosí - Story of Estefanía, Sinful Woman of Potosí
1647: Santiago de Chile - Chilean Indians' Game Banned
1648: Olinda - Prime Cannon Fodder
1649: Ste. Marie des Hurons - The Language of Dreams
1650: Mexico City - The Conquerors and the Conquered
1654: Oaxaca - Medicine and Witchcraft
1655: San Miguel de Nepantla - Juana at Four
1656: Santiago de la Vega - Gage
1658: San Miguel de Nepantla - Juana at Seven
1663: Old Guatemala - Enter the Printing Press
1663: The Banks of the Paraíba River - Freedom
1663: Serra da Barriga - Palmares
1665: Madrid - Charles II
1666: New Amsterdam - New York
1666: London - The White Servants
1666: Tortuga Island - The Pirates' Devotions
1667: Mexico City - Juana at Sixteen
1668: Tortuga Island - The Dogs
1669: Town of Gibraltar - All the Wealth in the World
1669: Maracaibo - The Broken Padlock
1670: Lima - "Mourn for us,"
1670: San Juan Atitlán - An Intruder on the Altar
1670: Masaya - "The Idiot"
1670: Cuzco - Old Moley
1671: Panama City - On Punctuality in Appointments
1672: London - The White Man's Burden
1674: Port Royal - Morgan
1674: Potosí - Claudia the Witch
1674: Yorktown - The Olympian Steeds
1676: Valley of Connecticut - The Ax of Battle
1676: Plymouth - Metacom
1677: Old Road Town - Death Here, Rebirth There
1677: Pôrto Calvo - The Captain Promises Lands, Slaves, and Honors
1678: Recife - Ganga Zumba
1680: Santa Fe, New Mexico - Red Cross and White Cross
1681: Mexico City - Juana at Thirty
1681: Mexico City - Sigüenza y Góngora
1682: Accra - All Europe Is Selling Human Flesh
1682: Remedios - By Order of Satan
1682: Remedios - But They Stay On
1682: Remedios - By Order of God
1688: Havana - By Order of the King
1691: Remedios - Still They Don't Move
1691: Mexico City - Juana at Forty
1691: Placentia - Adario, Chief of the Huron Indians, Speaks to Baron de Lahontan, French Colonizer of Newfoundland
1692: Salem Village - The Witches of Salem
1692: Guápulo - Nationalization of Colonial Art
1693: Mexico City - Juana at Forty-Two
1693: Santa Fe, New Mexico - Thirteen Years of Independence
1694: Macacos - The Last Expedition Against Palmares
1695: Serra Dois Irmãos - Zumbí
1695: São Salvador de Bahía - The Capital of Brazil
1696: Regla - Black Virgin, Black Goddess
1697: Cap Français - Ducasse
1699: Madrid - Bewitched
1699: Macouba - A Practical Demonstration
1700: Ouro Prêto - All Brazil to the South
1700: St. Thomas Island - The Man Who Makes Things Talk
1700: Madrid - Penumbra of Autumn
The Sources
About the Author
About the Translator
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