Angels and demons in the conquest of Peru

• Conquest of New World by Spanish forces was the last great European religious crusade
• Conversion of the native peoples to Christianity was envisaged by the Spanish monarchy- seeking to renew the ideals of the age of the apostles 
• Through Flemish engravings visual models of angels with Hebrew names and individual attributes were filtered through to indigenous artists- harquebus-bearing angels
• Angels made up a veritable army of benevolent and saving powers that became particularly effective during human injustices, the world's apostasy of abandoning God, and the imminent cataclysm and the glorious restoration of the Kingdom of Yahweh
• Through the angels God intervened directly in the government of the universe and in the life of every living thing
• Incas did not know about angels only knew about devils called cupai
• Devil appear in shape of a mastiff or devouring dog- sixteenth century these dogs were brought to Peru to make war on the Indians- evil use of a bloodhood attributed to an invention of the devil