Maturin Le Petit (1693–1739)[1] was a Jesuit priest sent among the Choctaws in 1726[2] and to observe the Natchez in 1730[3] in an area of what became part of Mississippi. He was also in New Orleans.[4] He wrote of the Natchez that, "The sun is the principal object of veneration to these people" and that "they cannot conceive of anything which can be above this heavenly body".[5] The French were fascinated by accounts of the Natchez as they had been ruled by their own Sun King, Louis XIV (le Roi Soleil).[6]

References

  1. ^ Margaret Mead, Ruth Leah Bunzel [The golden age of American anthropology] 1960 - 630 pages
  2. ^ Hamilton, Peter Joseph (1897). "Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin from the Discovery of Mobile Bay in 1519 Until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821".
  3. ^ Robert Wright [The evolution of God] - 2009 - 567 pages
  4. ^ Hamilton, Peter Joseph (1897). "Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin from the Discovery of Mobile Bay in 1519 Until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821".
  5. ^ Peter Farb [Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North...] 1971 - 332 pages
  6. ^ Man's rise to civilization: the cultural ascent of the Indians of North America Peter Farb Dutton, Mar 9, 1978 314 pages
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