c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…these cultures the aztecs, the incas the mayans. There was a scene that is related where the friar that had accompanied Pizarro on his expedition showed Atahualpa the Bible this is god and Atahualpa Couldn't deal with it wasn't that? How could god…
…beautiful cultures, the aztecs, the incas the mayans. And there was a scene that is related where the friar that had accompanied Pizarro on his expedition showed Atahualpa the Bible this is god and Atahualpa Couldn't deal with it. It wasn't that. How could…
…guns and horses and things that were startling to people. But even so after they started their work then when you hit Rita Pizarro who was a ruthless guy entering the whole world of the incas driving along there with these cities up there, and they…
…with a beard that he had walked across the Andes and left across the sea, that he would return and then along comes Pizarro and walks right into that opportunity. Same with Cortes in the Spanish in the north walking into the tetzicatl opportunity. How do…
…so easy for the Spanish as it were to come in and totally decimate these cultures? When I think of Cortes I think of Pizarro well gunpowder is a lot to say and the horse. These people had nothing like this power. On the other hand you can't downgrade…
…one and so forth and so on. But the guts of those men is just it's just something else. What about the incas and Pizarro was this was the same kind of thing a similar thing and these conquistadores, they were thugs really. They were brutal men, but…
…enormous. Can you imagine riding down a road with something like 100 men through the great fortress world of a civilization such as Pizarro did, going into Peru many of us have been wearing armor by the way well that had something to do with it too.…
…oh it's an awful story. When I think of Atahualpa I think there was a story of Atahualpa, the clergyman who was accompanying Pizarro handed Atahualpa the Bible Yeah and Atahualpa threw it on the ground: what are you giving me a book for this is not…