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Show 6 RC Dooe OG Thee PAL eG PeaLeer eu oe ReePe eae Se FSpee ee ee oy te pe ee Er Ur a tcay AGOt PGP OE OCL Aeaera L Pee PMC Se Leer Pee © 1 ie ce poe ae we ae ee Ome ee ee or eee ae 2 i}? oe ee May Se ee ae vi ey ie oo he ve ime ee ° red eee ie on ene ~~ et dette tinedi tad ae deat ee 4-8 Cea pede me on rel 64 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW to take such others as they desir@d; and in matrimony and order to expunge the name given them in baptism and the water of the holy oils, they went in to the rivers and bathed themselves with amole, roots of the country, and even washed their clothing with it; giving to understand that *f'aos had given them to understand that as soon as the Spaniards moved upon this kingdom they would warn them of it, so that they could assemble and prevent their getting any of them.’ ‘And having put to him other interrogatories and re- ed by the Holy Sacrament and that it was so done and also nothing more to say, and that we must live with precau- Fok ge ek 9be ie ad Pe et aa Se i kee aarpare many other things +-é~ eel eae Secs" eee “Sd Teal a eR teeae 4 Peart * or He ae Sealed ee a” ee Se al — ed Pin # ae oe ateray a edrid because the God of the Spaniards a pudiated it. nai And these were immediately put to death by of the said Popé; and thereupon they re-built their houses of idolatry called estufas, making in imitation of the devil, in order very ugly masks to dance the Cachina ee a eee ed ae ee a) ed ne ie) Pe as * o ie ed taeCerodate bf ae 8 es +.% uy ee parhe a ot " ota ree ae nae a ia dance, and that in the same manner the devil had givel them to understand that by living under the laws of their | ancients they would raise a great quantity of corn and ieecece beans, large bolls of cotton, pumpkins and watermelons 0 a grea t size, and musk melons, and that their houses woul be fill ed, and they would have good health and plenty of rest - ; ane Peer Pye 1s ‘was the principal cause of their having committed Pee ad : = uch as he has already stated, the people were overne in pleasure, in their old mode of living, and atrocities; and that after acting, as he has deposed, i the diabol- rorize the people into obedience to a three demons, spoke the from came OrCer An os a by of any one who still in . 1 ope, to the effect that carried would shoy Tree b would tig — € commands lacking to them. of ; the aforesaid And this he answered four nothing to the rs ee the priests, governors and Spaniards, the dirt of his face and clothes worn by and thtat: in such should be punished; and that if they ee , him, Sa #0 -#. ee ee ee ee oe _ “Being a what conversations and designs they had . 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Si ice in the event of their return, he said: at what he knows about this question is that they +: 6 ee a oe ed ir Rees eee was worthless and was very powerful, and that of the Spaniard was be but rotten pieces of wood; and this was heeded and Bovlung obeyed by all, save so ome, who, moved by Christian zeal, reoe ee E hol Coa eae. at which he does not recall, it being under- stood that this order had come from the Cadi and the other two who emitted fire from their extremities at the said estufa of Taos, and that thereby they remained as of old, the same as when they came out of the Laguna de Cépala; that that. was the best mode of living and the one they de- heae ene et te eee are by such actions they would be freed of the condition creat- a cave ee ee ey ee BO - ad pee eae ed ee ee ek ee CRE Oe he ae = ere they will Bent % ina 65 those of other saints, crosses and all other things touching Christianity, and to burn the temples, break the bells, and separate from the wives whom God had given them in 2 eaiie Pets) 1a iet tee e, isl or sears e SP ott ‘ igh! Nar ta : ie Sek kW AE we tad SOY ‘ OE SE~*soh ct LP uPa G Rg aie CIE te SE TET ES DETLE ae OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES MEXICO BeeSee ee Os WOEi Parad AOet BICIT} ls tadtie ie de aie ke aaSok dd they ey do not care to live < any other life than that which “are leading today; and that the demons of the estufa of interrogatories relative to the case, he said: ; | | ‘That he has tion, because the said Indians are talking continually about following the Spaniards and fighting them at night in order to take their horses away and catch them on foot, although they may have to follow them for many leagues ; that what he has stated is the truth of what occurs, he having, as a Christian, confessed his sins; that he has gone through the pueblos teaching idolatrous dances through fear; that he has repented in his heart for having given offense to the Almighty ; and now being absolved and ad- | mitted into the pale of the church that he has stated the j truth as to everything asked of him, and that he affirms and } ratifies his whole deposition.’ “This being read to him he stated his age to be eighty And he signed it with his Excellency and the inyears. terpreters and accompanying retary. witnesses, before me, the sec. “Don ANTONIO DE OTEeRMiN, PEDRO NARANJO, NICOLAS ReprieuEz, JuAN Lucero DE Gopoy, JUAN Ruiz DE CaCERES, Pepro pp Leysa, SEBASTIAN DE HERRERA, JUAN Garcta DE Norteca, Luis GRANILLO, JUAN DE LUNA ¥ PADILLA. ‘‘Before me: ‘“ FRANCISCO XAVIER ‘Secretary of Government and War.”’ ‘At this the said camping place and plaza de armas, on the 20th day of December, in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-one, for the prosecution of this case, verification and proof that is being taken on account of the kingdom, general revolt of the traitorous apostates of this before appear to caused general captain and r the governo and the him, two young men, one named Juan Lorenzo other Francisco Lorenzo, full brothers, who, at the time of Fethe uprising, lived on a ranch near the pueblo of San to with their mother and a third brother, lipe, in company whom his Excellency administered the oath in due form of law, for God our Lord and with a sign of the cross, and e |