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26. The indigenous peoples' culture of respect and reverence for the Earth was intolerable to the foreign colonizers, who made every effort to eradicate whatever they considered to be idolatrous.
Esta cultura de respeto y reverencia por los nativos para la Tierra era intolerable para los extranjeros colonizadores, que hicieron todos los esfuerzos para extirpar todo aquello que tenían por idolatrías.
Theologia (‘speech about God’) is, therefore, always potentially idolatrous. Significantly, it is Moses’ brother Aaron who can speak well, who will be Moses’ ‘prophet’, speaking for him to the people.35 And it is the fluent, voluble Aaron who commits the archetypal act of idolatry by encouraging the people to worship the golden calf.36
La theologia («el discurso sobre Dios») es, por lo tanto, potencialmente idólatra. De forma significativa, el hermano de Moisés, Aarón, posee el don de la elocuencia y será el «profeta» de Moisés, hablando al pueblo en su nombre.35 Y será el persuasivo y voluble Aarón quien cometerá el acto arquetípico de idolatría al animar a su pueblo a adorar al becerro de oro.36
At The Curtain, the rule was that all the girls married the Love Spout in the central courtyard, but now a kind of rebellion was brewing, and the day came when the prostitutes went together to the Madam to announce that now that they had begun to think of themselves as the wives of the Prophet they required a better grade of husband than some spurting stone, which was almost idolatrous, after all; and to say that they had decided that they would all become the brides of the bumbler, Baal.
En La Cortina, la norma era que todas las chicas se casaran con el Surtidor del Amor del patio central, pero empezaron a soplar vientos de rebeldía, y un día todas las prostitutas se presentaron ante la Madam para comunicarle que, ahora que habían empezado a considerarse esposas del Profeta, necesitaban un marido de más categoría que el surtidor de piedra, lo cual, al fin y al cabo, rayaba en la idolatría, y decirle que habían decidido que todas serían esposas del zángano de Baal.
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