Pané / Fray Ramon Pane / Arrom An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians

A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8254-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 104 Seiten

Reihe: Chronicles of the New World Encounter

The first book written in the Americas in a European language, giving Pane’s fifteenth-century account of the native inhabitants he encountered during the Spanish conquest of the Antilles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pané, Fray Ramon

Fray Ramon Pane, Pane

Arrom, José Juan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Griswold, Susan C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction to the English Edition Introductory Study AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE INDIANS An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians, Diligently Gathered by Fray Ramón, a Man Who Knows Their Language, by Order of the Admiral I Concerning the place from which the Indians have come and in what manner II How the men were separated from the women III How the indignant Guahayona resolved to leave, seeing that those men whom he had sent to gather the digo for bathing did not return IV V How afterwards there were once again women on the said Island of Hispaniola, which before was called Haiti, and the inhabitants call it by this name; and they called it and the other islands Bohío VI How Guahayona returned to the said Cauta, from where he had taken the women VII How there were once again women on the aforementioned Island of Haití, which is now called Hispaniola VIII How they found a solution so that they would be women IX How they say the sea was made X How the four identical sons of Itiba Cahubaba, who died in childbirth, went together to take Yaya's gourd, which held his son Yayael, who had been transformed into fishes, and none dared to seize it except Deminán Caracaracol, who took it down, and everyone ate their fill of fish XI Concerning what happened to the four brothers when they were fleeing from Yaya XII Concerning what they believe about the dead wandering about, and what they are like, and what they do XIII Concerning the shape they say the dead have XIV Concerning whence they deduce this and who leads them to hold such a belief XV Concerning the observances of these Indian behiques, and how they practice medicine and teach the people, and in their medicinal cures they are often deceived XVI Concerning what the said behiques do XVII How the aforesaid physicians have at times been deceived XVIII How the relatives of the dead man take revenge when they have got an answer by means of the spell of the drinks [XVIII BIS] How they find out what they want from the one whom they have burned, and how they take revenge XIX How they make and keep the zemis made of wood or of stone XX Concerning the zemi Buya and Aiba, who they say was burned when there was war, and afterwards, when they washed him with yuca juice, he grew arms, and his eyes reappeared, and his body grew XXI Concerning Guamarete's zemi XXII Concerning another zemi called Opiyelguobirán, which was in the possession of a preeminent man called Sabananiobabo, who had many subjects under his command XXIII Concerning another zemi whose name was Guabancex XXIV Concerning what they believe about another zemi whose name was Baraguabael XXV Concerning the things they affirm were told by two principal caciques of the Island of Hispaniola, one called Cacibaquel, father of the aforesaid Guarionex, and the other Guamanacoel [XXV BIS] How we left to go to the country of the aforesaid Mabiatué—that is, I, Fray Ramón Pané, a humble friar, Fray Juan de Borgoña of the Order of Saint Francis, and Juan Mateo, the first man to receive the holy baptismal water on the Island of Hispaniola XXVI Concerning what happened to the images and the miracle God worked to show his power Appendix A. Christopher Columbus Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera Appendix C. Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Bibliographic Note Index of Taíno Words and Names

Über Autor(innen)

Fray Ramon Pané, a self-described “poor friar of the Order of Saint Jerome,” arrived in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus in 1494 where he spent the next two years living with and recording the lives of its indigenous inhabitants.José Juan Arrom is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including Imaginación del Nuevo Mundo.