Notes on the "great sodomites" remark on the 1519 entry of the Queer timeline  

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In the 1519 entry of the Queer timeline one reads:

"One anonymous conquistador reported in 1519 he found the Mayan people to be "great sodomites"; a later explorer wrote to Europe everyone in the New World". -- [1], see Hernán Cortés

Some googling in December 2018 turns up this:

"In this province of Panuco the men are great sodomites, cowards, and drunkards; it is almost incredible the length to which they carry their passion for intoxicating fluids (when they can no longer stand and drink, they lie down and have it injected by a squirt into their breech)."-- Narrative of some things of New Spain and of the great city of Temestitan, Mexico[2]

And:

"The second language is that of the Pacaxes, the people who live in the country between the plains and the mountains. These people are more barbarous. Some of them who live near the mountains eat human flesh. They are great sodomites, and have many wives, even when these are sisters. They worship painted and sculptured stones, and are much given to witchcraft and sorcery."
[...]
"The women paint their chins and eyes like the Moorish women of Barbary. They are great sodomites.[454] They drink wine made of the pitahaya, which is the fruit of a great thistle which opens like the pomegranate."-- Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera cited in Original Narratives of Early American History, by Vaca and Others[3]

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