Subject: Church over Temple
Alfred de Tavares: Yes, many churches and chapels in Goa occupy erstwhile Hindu temples are built on the sites of those demolished. It was not a question of lack of real estate but rather of supremacy: Psycologically, nothing surmounts to a greater degree the paramountcy of the latest comer/invader than their God/gods lording it over those that the subjugated peoples deified. For a certainity, the Igreja da Nossa Senhora dos Milagres, Mapu�a and the Igreja do Espirito Santo, Margao took over the existing temples. The bell tower of the Milagres proves that. In Loutulim, our ancestral Capela da N. S. dos Milagres, in Vanxem, is a converted temple. Mario Cabral e Sa, among others, will have many more examples. Gilbert Lawrence: You have certainly provided some specific names and details that leads me to believe you know what you are writing. But you also wrote very confidently and with certainity, that Goan men were raped en-mass by wine-drunk Bacchus and his many maidens when they invaded Goa from Greece. This was all pre-Alexander the Great. No such historical version exists of this account of your post/story. Neither do Goan men report of being raped by women. :=)) ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
