This is me, Eccles

This is me, Eccles
This is me, Eccles

Sunday 11 September 2016

Walking with Incas

The appearance of Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez singing Rule Britannia while dressed as an Inca chief has awakened people to the realization that there are increasing numbers of Incas in the UK - two or three million at the last census - and they do not always assimilate easily with the indigenous population.

Juan Diego Flórez

An increasingly common sight on the streets of Britain.

Some people object to the Inca religion, the "religion of peace", because of its human sacrifices, although the more tolerant of us have learned to respect these cultural differences. It is a different matter with the radicalised Incas, who shout "Viracocha" - often on trains - before dragging away children for slaughter on a high mountain.

Peace-loving Incas such as Juan Diego will have none of this. "Of course, the Incan liturgies do require the occasional sacrifice, but for everyday "low" services, we tend to do non-human sacrifices - perhaps a teddy bear."

Paddington Bear

Some Incan priests slaughter a bear like this in the "Paddington" rite.

Pope Francis, as a fellow South American, is very sympathetic to the Incan religion, and has already had "constructive" meetings with the Incan Archbishop of Cusco, who has promised to slaughter a llama as a form of prayer for him.

Incan temple

Churches like this are starting to appear in our city centres.

So I hope that this little piece has helped to promote Christian/Incan tolerance, dialogue, walking together, and of course mercy.

10 comments:

  1. Hopefully, this move will also represent more openness in future towards the culturally defined religious freedoms of Aztec clergy to perform public human sacrifices as well as their practises of hieratic slavery as a cultural norm in our increasingly muticultural UK.

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  2. We must accompany others by inculturating the liturgy in ways that will make it culturally accessible. It should not be difficult to retrofit with soundproof doors and rotating knives.

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  3. From the USA, I am thinking that the Pope should apologize for that "Lady of Guadalupe" thing and the so called Juan Diego / rose incident. Clearly, both Christians and Incans worship the same "G"od "s", right?

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    1. I so much want to 'upvote' you on this one!

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  4. Cusco did suggest the Dalai Llama but this was rejected for just an ordinary one.

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    1. In fact they brought the Dalai LLama to the stone of sacrifice, but then His LLamaness said something like "No probs, people, I am gonna reincarnate anyway", and they correctly assumed their god wouldn't like a Yo-Yo sacrifice.

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  5. I converted to the Incas once. Got tired and was transported to the bottom with only a small bruise.
    The bruise cleared up so I held a press conference and converted back on the plane coming home.

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  6. But we must have a Roman rite in Incan. Inca,Pinca, parley vous is so important as we recall The Great War.

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    1. Wow! I haven't thought of that ditty since my work in a pub in British Columbia some years ago. Fun memory!

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