Inquisition: A Case of Lucas, an indigenous man who claimed to be God

How an indigenous man by the name of Lucas was supposed to have claimed that he was God and that he descended from heaven when he was strolling through the public plaza in the year 1536 in the Mexican state of Michoacán.

Inquisition: A Case of Lucas, an indigenous man who claimed to be God
Detail of the mural "The History of Michoacán". Execution of Tangáxoan II. The poster reads. "Tangáxoan II last monarch of the Purépecha indigenous people, was tortured and murdered by the ferocious hordes led by the sadistic-vil Nuño de Guzmán". On the left, the woman on the white horse is Eréndira, daughter of the cazonci, who would lead the resistance. Credit: Pueblos originarios