Born in Trujillo, Spain, he was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry colonel and Francisca Gonzales, a woman of poor means.
His exact birth date is uncertain, but is believed to be sometime in the 1470's. He grew up illiterate.
He was a distant cousin of Henan Cortes, an adventurous sailor.
Reports of Peru's reaches was not a fable anymore. Those news tantalized Pizarro to the point that he undertook to expeditions heading to the land of the Incan Empire. Both failed as a result of bad weather and lack of provisions.
In the meantime the governor of Panama made an offer to him. If he was able to settle in Panama, he would become the major of the city. He accepted and became a wealthy citizen.
But he was not content with the life in a small frontier port. He still was pursued in his dreams by the rumors of the golden land of the Incas and he was obsessed to became the owner of that land.
He obtained a considerable authority from King Charles I over the lands that he planned to obtain either by cheating or by mercenary force.
The expedition left Panama in 1530. He reached Tumbes, the northernmost coastal city of the Inca Empire. At Tumbes an Inca noble, a high official of the empire, made it his business to visit the bearded strangers. He came on board, examined the ships closely, and asked the foreigners what they were doing.
Pizarro did not have enough men to begin his invasion, but he thought he might as well get over the formality, informing that the land and the people shall be subject to the Church and the King of Spain.
One can imagine the smiles of the Inca noble, who knew the scale of eternity. How much was rendered into Quechua, the Inca language, is unclear.
Inca Atahualpa refused to tolerate a Spanish presence in his lands but was captured. A ransom for his release was demanded. They wanted a very large room filled with gold. Their plan was to kill the Inca after receiving the ransom because The Inca was the Head of the Empire.
They did so and proclaimed the ownership over the land. As usual, quarreling began among them.
Pizarro's best friend declared war against him but was captured and assassinated by Pizarro.
His embittered son assassinated Pizarro in Lima and that was the end of the "CONQUISTADOR."
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
What the word VIRACOCHA meant to the INCAS?
The word VIRACOCHA, a quechua term for LIGHT then and now, has misled many into thinking the Incas took the Europeans as gods. The real truth is that the Incas did not take them as gods.
Since the color of their skin was white, and, in the sense of the Inca's religious concept, the Europeans needed to prove to the Inca that they were truly the sons of the light as they identified themselves as "sons of the real God."
As we can see through the narratives written by the same Europeans, they couldn't prove it, resulting in the assassination of the Inca Atahualpa and the confiscation of an overwhelming amount of gold paid to them for the ransom of the Inca's soul.
To understand what were the beliefs that played an important role in the demise of the empire we begin with the word VIRACOCHA. What the word Viracocha meant to them?
It was understood as "SEA OF FAT" and referred to the associations of the CREATOR with the MILKY WAY. The dual energy, that was and still is, emanating from this interrelation was denominated "moisture," "animal fat," 'the sea," and "the color white."
The Andean world was and still is structured by a dual system, which is a system of complementary opposites. It resembles the Chinese Yang and Ying. For the Incas the two halves are called HANAN (Upper) and HURIN (Lower). Man,sun, fire, mountains, and so forth, belonged to the upper half; woman, moon, water, sea, and coast, to the lower half. And the most important concept is here - present and center are upper; past and periphery were lower. It is very important to understand how it worked in the spiritual realm in order to get the full concept of the religious beliefs they had and still have.
The Incas believed that history was a succession of ages divided one from another by a cataclysm epoch. They called it a "pachacutec" which meant an "overturning of the world." This upheaval reversed the polarity of the halves: what was upper became lower, and vice versa.
The Incas implied with this explanation of revolving ages that the new order of things was about to begin. The unnatural and destructive force of the Europeans from the Andean point of view, could not be accepted and would one day be reversed. For the past order is not irrevocable; it remains latent in the underworld, awaiting return: one pachacutec demands another.
Since the color of their skin was white, and, in the sense of the Inca's religious concept, the Europeans needed to prove to the Inca that they were truly the sons of the light as they identified themselves as "sons of the real God."
As we can see through the narratives written by the same Europeans, they couldn't prove it, resulting in the assassination of the Inca Atahualpa and the confiscation of an overwhelming amount of gold paid to them for the ransom of the Inca's soul.
To understand what were the beliefs that played an important role in the demise of the empire we begin with the word VIRACOCHA. What the word Viracocha meant to them?
It was understood as "SEA OF FAT" and referred to the associations of the CREATOR with the MILKY WAY. The dual energy, that was and still is, emanating from this interrelation was denominated "moisture," "animal fat," 'the sea," and "the color white."
The Andean world was and still is structured by a dual system, which is a system of complementary opposites. It resembles the Chinese Yang and Ying. For the Incas the two halves are called HANAN (Upper) and HURIN (Lower). Man,sun, fire, mountains, and so forth, belonged to the upper half; woman, moon, water, sea, and coast, to the lower half. And the most important concept is here - present and center are upper; past and periphery were lower. It is very important to understand how it worked in the spiritual realm in order to get the full concept of the religious beliefs they had and still have.
The Incas believed that history was a succession of ages divided one from another by a cataclysm epoch. They called it a "pachacutec" which meant an "overturning of the world." This upheaval reversed the polarity of the halves: what was upper became lower, and vice versa.
The Incas implied with this explanation of revolving ages that the new order of things was about to begin. The unnatural and destructive force of the Europeans from the Andean point of view, could not be accepted and would one day be reversed. For the past order is not irrevocable; it remains latent in the underworld, awaiting return: one pachacutec demands another.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
The INCAS and the AGE OF REASON
The Incas "reigned" in their empire, they did not "rule". They considered that all the world belonged to the Creator, Viracocha. Under that philosophy we can see that the Castile is of the Spaniards, and the Indies of the Indians, and Guinea of the Negroes, and so on. Each of these are the lawful owners (according to the laws of nature) of their lands. No European neither Spaniard nor any priest had the right to violate the natural laws of ownership.
The Incas were the natural owners of the Andes, they were taught from the very beginning the superior ways to till the ground and respect the laws of nature otherwise disaster would come over them.
When the fight between the two stepbrothers (Huascar and Atahualpa) arose, all the empire was conscious of what was happening in the spiritual world. They knew already that any unbalance of the forces of nature they would suffer the consequences of losing its cosmic shield of protection against the evil forces of the underworld. The balance was broken. They were expecting already their own destruction.
When the Europeans arrived, the People of the Andes treated them as the messengers that were coming from the cosmic realm. They thought they were from the forces of the sky coming to help to put in order the natural forces that governed the empire in the person of the Inca.
The Inca was the king and possessor of the spiritual laws that governed the empire. The Europeans were not strange to the way this forces worked and at the very beginning, instead of provoking a confrontation and being treated as intruders they played the role of messengers and the Inca, mistakenly treated them as those who in the past helped them to control and harmonize the natural forces around them. These fake messengers tricked him and the whole empire suffered the consequences. The Incas had so much faith in their Creator and were very loyal and very charitable and humble, and they raised their sons and daughters with discipline and respect for the authority. On the other hand the Europeans were the opposite, they were driven by the power of the self-interest and the lust for the pleasures of the world and were blind to the real spiritual power. Europeans felt intimidated by such pure power of virtue and they really want a piece of that natural energy emanating from the People of the Andes. But such power is not manifested in a very polluted body. Europeans at that time were suffering the consequences of their own abuse of power and were trying to escape to any place to avoid death.
The Incas were the natural owners of the Andes, they were taught from the very beginning the superior ways to till the ground and respect the laws of nature otherwise disaster would come over them.
When the fight between the two stepbrothers (Huascar and Atahualpa) arose, all the empire was conscious of what was happening in the spiritual world. They knew already that any unbalance of the forces of nature they would suffer the consequences of losing its cosmic shield of protection against the evil forces of the underworld. The balance was broken. They were expecting already their own destruction.
When the Europeans arrived, the People of the Andes treated them as the messengers that were coming from the cosmic realm. They thought they were from the forces of the sky coming to help to put in order the natural forces that governed the empire in the person of the Inca.
The Inca was the king and possessor of the spiritual laws that governed the empire. The Europeans were not strange to the way this forces worked and at the very beginning, instead of provoking a confrontation and being treated as intruders they played the role of messengers and the Inca, mistakenly treated them as those who in the past helped them to control and harmonize the natural forces around them. These fake messengers tricked him and the whole empire suffered the consequences. The Incas had so much faith in their Creator and were very loyal and very charitable and humble, and they raised their sons and daughters with discipline and respect for the authority. On the other hand the Europeans were the opposite, they were driven by the power of the self-interest and the lust for the pleasures of the world and were blind to the real spiritual power. Europeans felt intimidated by such pure power of virtue and they really want a piece of that natural energy emanating from the People of the Andes. But such power is not manifested in a very polluted body. Europeans at that time were suffering the consequences of their own abuse of power and were trying to escape to any place to avoid death.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Why the Spaniards didn't leave the land of the INCAS?
Unlike Asia and Africa, America never saw their invaders leave. Their autonomy was lost, but that does not mean they have disappeared. Many survived, specially the ones who still lives in the cordillera and valleys around.
In the Andes, more than 12 million people still speak the language of the Incas. For five centuries we have listened only to the history of the "winners". It is time to hear the other side of the story that began in 1492 and still continues to this day.
America as a continent was not discovered because by logical thinking you cannot discover an inhabited land. Instead we can say it was invaded. Such an obvious point has been distorted by the history that Europeans wrote and taught to the world that was totally in chaos and in need of fairy stories or myths.
The history of the other side is also mythical, but while Western myths are triumphalist, those of the 'less fortunates' have to explain and overcome catastrophic scenarios.
Education about the world to the generations of the 1950s and 1960s was something that happened mainly in Britain before 1850s. A little of Greece and Rome, and a great deal of the Tudors, Stuarts and Hanoverians was the drummed history of the time. Nothing about the Incas of Peru and other cultures of Central America. They were dismissed by Western historiography.
Ancient America was shown as poor and undeveloped continent, laking the progress that the humans in the other side of the world had. The plow and the wheel were their favorites; another was writing. Historians took the absence of them as proof that ancient Americans weren't civilized. It never occurred to them that plows and wheels are not much use without draft animals such as oxen or horses, neither of which existed in the Americas.
Ancient Americans developed magnificent achievements in fields that are now being of great interest to astronomers and mathematicians.
We can see from this perspective that the Europeans felt diminished by the outstanding achievements that this people did without the commodities of the West. They did not tell to the western world the real story about this great civilization instead they meddled the cultures hoping in the end to reach the knowledge that these Andean People had. But one important they forgot, these Andean People were not cut for the pleasures of the western lifestyle, instead they were formed and dressed to fight for the rights of the Cosmic Force of the Creation and to maintain the harmony of these force in every living being around the Cordillera of the Andes.
In the Andes, more than 12 million people still speak the language of the Incas. For five centuries we have listened only to the history of the "winners". It is time to hear the other side of the story that began in 1492 and still continues to this day.
America as a continent was not discovered because by logical thinking you cannot discover an inhabited land. Instead we can say it was invaded. Such an obvious point has been distorted by the history that Europeans wrote and taught to the world that was totally in chaos and in need of fairy stories or myths.
The history of the other side is also mythical, but while Western myths are triumphalist, those of the 'less fortunates' have to explain and overcome catastrophic scenarios.
Education about the world to the generations of the 1950s and 1960s was something that happened mainly in Britain before 1850s. A little of Greece and Rome, and a great deal of the Tudors, Stuarts and Hanoverians was the drummed history of the time. Nothing about the Incas of Peru and other cultures of Central America. They were dismissed by Western historiography.
Ancient America was shown as poor and undeveloped continent, laking the progress that the humans in the other side of the world had. The plow and the wheel were their favorites; another was writing. Historians took the absence of them as proof that ancient Americans weren't civilized. It never occurred to them that plows and wheels are not much use without draft animals such as oxen or horses, neither of which existed in the Americas.
Ancient Americans developed magnificent achievements in fields that are now being of great interest to astronomers and mathematicians.
We can see from this perspective that the Europeans felt diminished by the outstanding achievements that this people did without the commodities of the West. They did not tell to the western world the real story about this great civilization instead they meddled the cultures hoping in the end to reach the knowledge that these Andean People had. But one important they forgot, these Andean People were not cut for the pleasures of the western lifestyle, instead they were formed and dressed to fight for the rights of the Cosmic Force of the Creation and to maintain the harmony of these force in every living being around the Cordillera of the Andes.
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