ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a review of the literature on the Loa to the auto sacramental El divino Narciso which, along with the Respuesta and Primero sueno, is considered one of Sor Juana's most significant works, not only intellectually but politically. In the Spanish American colonies Corpus Christi became a vehicle to demonstrate and enact the triumph of Christianity over paganism. The loa is a synthesis and allegory of the different stages of conquest from the reading of the Requerimiento, to the military battles and posterior evangelization. The arrival of Celo, who represents military conquest, and Religion, who takes over after the indigenous people have been defeated in order to evangelize them, supposedly puts an end to paganism. The auto sacramental provides a Christianized version of Greek mythology, while the setting of the introductory loa is the violent domination of Aztec religion by Spanish Christianity.
