Gods, demons, and idols in the Andes.

From: Journal of the History of Ideas | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: MacCormack, Sabine | Copyright information

Idolatry has meant different things in different times and places. During the era in which the Spanish first encountered public religious practices that they perceived to be idolatrous in the Americas, the study of Hermetic and Platonic texts in Europe, in particular in Marsilio Ficino's Florence, was reactivating interest in the power of images and idols, and in the agency of spirit beings or demons. Seekers after occult knowledge, among them Ficino himself, speculated as to wheth...

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