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The soreness of the loss of the Spanish influences this piece through the description and documentation of the entirety of events. The author portrays El Pope as satanic, savage, and the antithesis of the good Christian Spanish. El Pope was not likely to have been a devil worshipper, an advocate of past Pueblo religion is much more likely, but that does not make El Pope the evil villain the Spanish need for their narrative. The author was likely so appalled by the dismisal of Christianity, he concluded that the alternative was Satanic worship. To the Spainards, knowing God, then forsaking him was evil. The Spanish believed the natives as savages, unknowing of Christ, but now they were taught. They knew Christ and still forsaked