Obligacion de Saverse Acristianarse y Bautizalle Entre Ellos a Necicidad y es Forsoso Seruicio de Dios en el Mundo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Obligacion de Saverse Acristianarse y Bautizalle Entre Ellos a Necicidad y es Forsoso Seruicio de Dios en el Mundo
Subject: Religion; Christianity; Baptism; Sacraments; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts a baptism of a young child performed by two indigenous men. The person on the left side of the image is illustrated holding a naked child forward while the man on the right pours water over the child’s head to baptize him. The author explains that baptism is a required sacrament, and even if there is no priest or Spaniard in a town, a commoner should perform the baptism to ensure the child does not go to purgatory or hell. The caption written above the two men, partially written in Quechua and partially in Spanish, reads, “Noca sutiayqui, Juan. Dios yayap, Dios churip, Dios Espíritu Santup sutinpi. Amén. Jesús” [I baptize you, Juan, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen, Jesus].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23744
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23744_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Religion; Christianity; Baptism; Sacraments; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization

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