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Article: Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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- Commonweal
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- March 14, 1997
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Am I not your Mother?" she asked him in his language, Nahuatl. "Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms?" The Virgin of Guadalupe appeared first in 1531 to a man named Cuauhtlatohuac - He Who Speaks Like an Eagle - but known since his baptism as Juan Diego, on the hill of Tepeyacac, where the mother-goddess Tonantzin had been worshiped by his people. She appears today on bolo ties, playing cards, tattooed on the skins of cholos in East L.A. and South Phoenix, on belts, pillows, towels, cigar boxes, lamp-shades, "among horns honking, ambulances running, children crying, all the people groaning and dancing and making love," in the struggles of farm ...
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