Diego de Landa
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title:
Diego de Landa
text:
Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice. In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts (codices) which contained knowledge of Maya religion and civilization, and the history of the American continent. Nonetheless, his work in documenting and researching the Maya was indispensable in achieving the current understanding of their culture, to the degree that one scholar asserted tha
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16th-century Spanish Catholic bishop in colonial Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa
date created:
2004-07-09T18:54:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T21:59:41Z
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