{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Atlantis","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_atl_soa_soa06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_atl_soa_soa06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_atl_soa_soa06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/atl/soa/soa06.htm","summary":"Nothing seems to have surprised the first Spanish adventurers in Mexico and Peru more than the extraordinary similarity to those of the old world, of the religious beliefs, rites, and emblems which they found established in the new. The Spanish priests regarded this similarity as the work of the devil. The worship of the cross by the natives, and its constant presence in all religious buildings and ceremonies, was the principal subject of their amazement; and indeed nowhere--not even in India\u2026","tags":["A.P. Sinnett","Occult History","Psychic Research","Theosophical Atlantis"],"text":null,"title":"The Story of Atlantis: Similarity of Religious Belief, Ritual and Architecture","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Atlantis","translated_text":null,"word_count":950}