The Conquistador's Daughter
I have yet to post anything remotely photographic on this blog; even more scandalous, I have yet to post anything remotely Mexican. I've now been in San Miguel de Allende for well over a year, and have well over a thousand images catalogued. And so I am in the midst of constructing an illuminated manuscript (all illumination, no manuscript) called "The Conquistador's Daughter."
(Note: I live in the state of Guanajuato, which was home to the semi-nomadic Chichimecas before the Conquest, and in which some 1400 of the indigenous people still speak the Chichimeca-Jonaz language, and a smaller group speak Náhuatl, the language of the Aztecs. As in most of Mexico, the religion is nominally Catholic, but in fact utterly syncretic: you don't have to look very deep to find pre-Hispanic iconography and rituals.)
(Note: I live in the state of Guanajuato, which was home to the semi-nomadic Chichimecas before the Conquest, and in which some 1400 of the indigenous people still speak the Chichimeca-Jonaz language, and a smaller group speak Náhuatl, the language of the Aztecs. As in most of Mexico, the religion is nominally Catholic, but in fact utterly syncretic: you don't have to look very deep to find pre-Hispanic iconography and rituals.)
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