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The story is considered to be the first or one of the first works of literature in the New World (cf. Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios—"Shipwrecked" or "Castaways") for its fantastical/religious elements, it is arguable whether that is a "traveler's account" or actual literature; and Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista ...
Documentos de Don Pedro Macapagal Mallari Lacandola del pueblo de San Simon, provincia de Pampanga y Don Mariano Punzalan Mallari Vergara Lacandola del pueblo de Apalit, de la misma provincia. 1882–1883 Untitled document – the name used here is the label of the folder. [2] XI Documentos de Don Francisco Siongco Soliman (Descendiente de Raja ...
Over time, the Lakandula's name has come to be written in several ways. However, according to the firsthand account written in Spanish by Hernando Riquel, the royal notary who accompanied Miguel López de Legazpi, the Lord of Tondo specifically identified himself as "Sibunao Lacandola, lord of the town of Tondo" [1] when he boarded Legazpi's ship with the lords of Manila on May 18, 1571.
Luis Laso de la Vega (or Luis Lasso de la Vega) was a 17th-century Mexican priest and lawyer. He is known chiefly as the author of the Huei tlamahuiçoltica ("The Great Happening"), an account published in 1649 [ 1 ] which contains a narrative describing the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary before Saint Juan Diego in 1531, some 117 years ...
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Historia General y Natural de las Indias, Book XXXII, Chapter VI, 1851, Madrid. Archivo de la historia de Yucatán, Campeche y Tabasco. 3 vols, ed. J. Ignacio Rubio Mañé (Mexico D.F., 1942).
During this period, the Convite de Rabinal and Santa Cruz del Quiché are presented and the cofradía members celebrate with fireworks. The legend of the Virgen del Patrocinio is well known by local historians, who say that in the mid-eighteenth century, [ 14 ] a woman appeared to an old man who was cutting wood on the summit of San Miguel ...
Miguel I of Buría (Spanish: Miguel de Buría; c. 1510 – c. 1555), also known as King Miguel (Spanish: Rey Miguel), Miguel the Black (Spanish: El Negro Miguel) and Miguel Guacamaya, [1] was formerly enslaved in San Juan, Puerto Rico, [2] and reigned as the king of Buría in the modern-day state of Lara, Venezuela. His incumbency began in 1552 ...
Mount Maunganui, or Mauao, known to locals as The Mount, [3] is a 232 metre (760 foot) volcanic dome at the end of a peninsula in the Tauranga suburb of Mount Maunganui in New Zealand, beside the eastern entrance to the city's harbour. Local Māori consider Mauao to be tapu (sacred), and it plays an important role in their mythology.