Eduardo Galeano - The Memory of Fire Trilogy - Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

Slader, Matthew, 255

Small Syphilitic God, 4–5

Soares, Antonio, 275

Solar, Antonio, 140

Soto, Hernando de, 88

Sousa de Castro, Aires de, 257–58

Spain, 52–53

Suárez, Inés, 101, 102, 116

Sublimis Deus (papal bull), 98

Subupira, 275

Sucre River, 219

Suliman, Sultan, 93

the Swedes, 262

Tabocas, 275

Tagus River, 227

Taíno Indians, 26, 41

Tairama, 170

Taironaca, 170

Tairona Indians, 170–71

Takelma Indians, 20

Tambisa, 151

Tapajós River, 105

Tarascan Indians, 10

Tecayehuatzin, 48

Tecum Umán, Captain, 77

Tehuantepec, 132

The Tempest (Shakespeare), 182–83

Tenochtitlán, 41, 54, 63, 65, 67, 70, 71, 76, 80, 83, 95; see also Mexico City

Teocalhueyacan, 68

Teotihuacán, 4

Tepeaca, 69

Tepehuanes Indians, 189–90

Tepeyac, 84

Tereupillán, 211–12

Tetón, Juan, 128

Teuctepec, 54

Texcoco, 70, 128, 156

Tierra del Fuego, 36

Tillamook Indians, 31

Titicaca, Lake, 23, 39, 154

Tituba (slave), 270

Tlatelolco, 64, 71, 155, 156

Tlaxcala, 48, 70, 129

Tlazoltéotl, 66

Tocuyo, 118

Toledo, 80

Toltec Indians, 5, 19

Tonantzin, 84

Torama, 170

Torres, Alonso de, 112

Torres, Luis de, 46

Torres, Simón de, 167

Tortuga Island, 244, 246–47

Tovar, Hernando del, 189

Treatise on Necessary Policy (González de Cellorigo), 174

Trinidad, 190, 193

Trujillo, 197

Tucapel, 119

Tucumán, 254

Tukano Indians, 9

Tukuna Indians, 34–35

Tula, 19, 156

Tulán, 40

Tumbes, 81, 94

Tunis, 93

Túpac Amaru, 147, 169

Tuxkahá, 79

Ubinas volcano, 205–6

Uceda, duke of, 195–96

Uitoto Indians, 12

Ulúa, Valley of, 96

Underhill, John, 221–22

Urquía, 144

Urubamba River, 96

Utatlán, 78

Utopia, 61

Utopia (More), 132

Vaca de Castro, Cristóbal, 115

Valderrábano (scribe), 59

Valdivia, Pedro de, 101, 102, 111–12, 113, 116, 118, 119–20, 177

Valladolid, 54, 110, 117, 174

Valle, Jualdel,189

Valparaíso, 111, 116

Valverde, Vincente de, 87–88

Vanbel, 280–81

Vancouver Island, 15

Vázquez, Antonio, 226

Vázquez, Juan Bautista, 159

Vázquez, Tomás, 136

Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco, 157

Vázquez de Espinosa, Antonio, 197–98

Vega, Lope de, 195

Velasco, Luis de, 228

Velázquez, Diego, 65

Velho, Jorge, 273

Venezuela, 81, 118, 134

Veracruz, 64, 95, 213

Verapaz, 204

Vespucci, Amerigo, 54, 61

Vieira, Antonio, 225–26, 276

Vilcabamba, 107

Villa de los Bergantines, 133

Virginia, 182, 190, 191, 221, 228, 244, 255

Virginia Company, 182, 190

Virgin of Copacabana, 154

Virgin of Guadelupe, 84, 187–88

Virgin of Regla, 277

Virgins of Candelaria, 193

Waiwai Indians, 9

Wall Street, 243

Wampanoag Indians, 255–56

Wanakauri, Mount, 39

Waterdrinker, 41–42

Wawenock Indians, 5

Welser (German banker), 62, 81, 100

Wilcabamba Mountains, 147

Winthrop, John, 220–21

Wiracocha, 39

Xaquixaguana, 90, 112, 113, 114

Xochimilco, 150, 151

Yagan Indians, 36

Yanaoca, 205

Yarovilcas Indians, 184

Yarutini, 181

Yauyoa, 141

Yobuënahuaboshka, 7

York, duke of, 252

Yorktown, 255

Yoruba Indians, 258

Yucatán, 4, 42, 65, 76, 96

Yupanqui, Francisco Tito, 154

Yuste, 129

Zaca, 170

Zacatecas, 115, 189, 190

Zamora, 204

Zape, 189

Zapotec Indians, 24, 26, 237

Zárate (lawyer), 109

Zuazo, Alonso, 78, 79

Zumárraga, Bishop, 84

Zumbí, Chief, 258, 274, 275

to Jorge Enrique Adoum, Angel Berenguer, Hortensia Campanella, Juan Gelman, Ernesto González Bermejo, Carlos María Gutierrez, Mercedes López-Baralt, Guy Prim, Fernando Rodríguez, Nicole Rouan, César Salsamendi, Héctor Tizón, José María Valverde, and Federico Vogelius, who read the drafts and made valuable comments and suggestions;

to Federico Alvarez, Ricardo Bada, José Fernando Balbi, Alvaro Barros-Lémez, Borja and José María Calzado, Ernesto Cardenal, Rosa del Olmo, Jorge Ferrer, Eduardo Heras León, Juana Martínez, Augusto Monterroso, Dámaso Murúa, Manuel Pereira, Pedro Saad, Nicole Vaisse, Rosita and Alberto Villagra, Ricardo Willson, and Sheila Wilson-Serfaty, who eased the author’s access to the necessary bibliography;

to José Juan Arrom, Ramón Carande, Alvaro Jara, Magnus Mörner, Augusto Roa Bastos, Laurette Sejourné, and Eric R. Wolff, who answered queries;

to the AGKED Foundation of West Germany, which contributed to the realization of this project;

and especially to Helena Villagra, who was its implacable and beloved critic, page by page, as it was realized.

This Book

is dedicated to Grandmother Esther. She knew it before she died.

E. G.

This book

is the second volume of the trilogy Memory of Fire. It is not an anthology, but a work of literary creation. The author proposes to narrate the history of America, and above all the history of Latin America, reveal its multiple dimensions and penetrate its secrets. In the third volume this vast mosaic will reach to our own times. Faces and Masks embraces the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

At the head of each text is indicated the year and place of occurrence of the episode. The numbers in parentheses below show the principal works consulted by the author in his search for information and points of reference. Documentary sources are listed at the end of the book.

Literal transcriptions are italicized.

I don’t know who I am,

nor just where I was bedded.

Don’t know where I’m from

nor where the hell I’m headed.

I’m a piece of fallen tree,

where it fell I do not know.

Where can my roots be?

On what sort of tree did I grow?

(Popular verses of Boyacá, Colombia)

The blue tiger will smash the world.

Another land, without evil, without death, will be born from the destruction of this one. This land wants it. It asks to die, asks to be born, this old and offended land. It is weary and blind from so much weeping behind closed eyelids. On the point of death it strides the days, garbage heap of time, and at night it inspires pity from the stars. Soon the First Father will hear the world’s supplications, land wanting to be another, and then the blue tiger who sleeps beneath his hammock will jump.

Awaiting that moment, the Guaraní Indians journey through the condemned land.

“Anything to tell us, hummingbird?”