Demonios within and without

• Augustinian missionaries convinced that regional ancestral divinities were part of an elaborate demonic playground
• Study of hybridic forms of the New World evidence suggest that the devil was actively appropriated within or partly within ancestral indigenous logic
• Hieronymites- a member of a congregation of hermits named after St. Jerome.
• Demons depicted- a lion, a bear, and a beautiful women
• santa maria de guadalupe de extremadura
• "here are the extreme sufferings and difficult tests chosen by God but which the devil and his hordes are called upon to administer"
• Ocana "commonly compares the appearance of native peoples who are outside the Hispanicising, urban environment (like Lima, Potosi, Cuzco, Arequipa) to devils"