which purported to explain how those societies had come into being. 2. Second, most native peoples worshiped an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator or "Master Spirit" (a being that assumed a variety of forms and both genders). They also venerated or placated a host of lesser supernatural entities, including an evil god who dealt out disaster, suffering, and death. 3. Third and finally, the members of most tribes believed in the immortality of the human soul and an afterlife, the main feature of which was the abundance of every good thing that made earthly life secure and pleasant. The Spanish colonists justified the conquest of the New World because they didn’t know the Christianism. The Spanish used many methods to teach the natives the religion like they used images of the Saints and Gods, they made some plays and representations of the ceremonies, they tried to represent the hell with flames and pain, but none of these methods worked because it was almost impossible to change the way native people thought; so what they started to do was to teach the little children who weren’t educated to the native cultures, when they grew they would belief in christianity ...
