full view, Scenes 19 and 20

"Here is shown where we were converted and were made Christians by the favor which God showed us of giving us his light, we who were in the darkness of error." [Source: Frederick Starr's English translation of the text found in the corresponding scene in the version he saw in the pueblo in 1898, published in his The Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1898), p. 18] Starr's footnote: "Floral decoration has always been a passion with Mexican Indians. Even now, on days of celebration, they erect great arches, bowers, garlands, and the like. Some years since Archbishop Gillow, of Oaxaca, visited a remote Indian district in his diocese. The Mixe parishioners went twenty miles down the road to meet him, seated him in a great chair and carried him to their town. They almost smothered him in a mass of loose flowers and floral decorations." [p. 18]