It is probably off the main track of your inquiry, and perhaps someone has
already mentioned it, but the town of Pueblo, in Mexico, is interesting for its
large number of churches. This may be apocryphal, but the story goes that
Cortez (or one of the conquistadores) vowed that he would build a church on
every pagan shrine, temple, etc. he discovered in the New World, as I remember
as an incentive to pious benefactors to finance his voyage. He found this old
ritual site, filled with pagan structures, and made his promise good.
Yrs, Tom Ault
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