Indigenous and Catholic calendars

Abstract

The belligerent indigenous resistance against colonization in the current Nicaragua is demonstrated in numerous events associated with their economic, political and religious life. During the process of the imposition of Christianity, the friars used radical methods for eradicate their beliefs and worldview.

Before these intentions our ancestors resorted to numerous maneuvers to cover up, protect and preserve their gods, among them, to go to their temples to make them believe that they worshiped the Catholic god. Examples of the asserted is the image of the Sun (Quetzalcoatl), which is still at the center of the main nave of the church of Sutiaba in Leon, or in the rites to their deities that the natives still celebrate in the Catholic temple of Chichicastenango, in Guatemala.

In this brief essay shows the transposition made by the Church to impose its Catholic saints to the indigenous festivities.