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The goddess of the #Tepeyac that they changed for a virgin or that's what a friar said in those years when the Guadalupana allegedly appeared on the hill of Tepeyac and here I leave you the fragment in which he describes the making of offerings and pilgrims to that sitio:
"Near the mountains there are three or four places where they used to make very solemn sacrifices, and they came to them from very far away lands. One of these is here in Mexico, where there is a mountain called Tepeacac, and the Spanish call it Tepeaquilla, and now it is called Our Lady of Guadalupe. In this place they had a temple dedicated to the mother of the Gods, which they called Tonantzin, which means our mother. ”
And the description of the friar continues to say that he does not agree that the Nahuas call #Tonantzin the #VirgenDeGuadalupe, because apparently those who visited her continued to worship her ancient goddess.
So everything seems to indicate that the pilgrims take longer than we believe, though not to Guadalupe but to Tonantzin, who had his old temple in the Tepeyac and was destroyed by the Catholics.
You can read more in "General History of Things of New Spain" by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún who is a friar who arrived a few years after the fall of #Tenochtitlan and tells us what some Mexicans told him.
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