The friars read their Bible onto the Americas first
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1794 · Places: Mexico, Europe
SUMMARYThe friars read their Bible onto the Americas first (Nov 8, 2026; Enoch research)
RECORDSpanish writers made the parallels before anyone else did: Ríos and Durán told Cholula like Babel (P879); in 1794 Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached that the apostle Thomas had come to Mexico, the figure the Mexica remembered as Quetzalcoatl
PATTERNthe colonizer's lens put Bible names on the land's own stories, which can either show real memory or overwrite it
LENS (WW9)we hold both to the same evidence standard; the land's own names come first, and a parallel is a Pattern until a document ties the two
OPENMier's sermon text (Dec 12, 1794); Sigüenza y Góngora's lost "Fénix del Occidente" on Thomas/Quetzalcoatl. Connects: P876–P882.