# Cuando probaron si los españoles eran dioses - Source Packet

Public Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ReLkJ5OL4e4

## Receipt Spine

- Oviedo's colonial chronicle says leaders in Borikén debated whether Spaniards were mortal before rebellion.
- The chronicle says Urayoán took charge of testing it and that Diego Salcedo was drowned at the Guarabo river.
- EnciclopediaPR places the Urayoán / Salcedo episode inside the 1511 Taíno rebellion context while cautioning that Oviedo's account created or transmitted the immortality story.

## Source Trail

- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, `Historia general y natural de las Indias`, Libro XVI, cap. VIII: https://archive.org/details/historiageneraly01fern
- Internet Archive text route used for quoted chronicle language: https://archive.org/stream/historiageneraly01fern/historiageneraly01fern_djvu.txt
- EnciclopediaPR, `Rebelión de los taínos de Boriquén, enero de 1511`: https://enciclopediapr.org/content/rebelion-de-los-tainos-de-boriquen-3-de-enero-de-1511/
- Local source lock: `boricua-receipts-salcedo-urayoan-mortality-source-lock-v1-2026-09-24.md`
- Final caption/source packet: `posting/salcedo-urayoan-final-caption-source-packet-2026-09-25.md`

## Guardrails

- Do not say as unqualified fact that all Taínos believed Spaniards were gods.
- Do not treat Oviedo as neutral Indigenous testimony.
- Keep the story framed as a colonial chronicle/tradition with modern caveat.
- Avoid gore or spectacle; the receipt is the political meaning of a mortality test before rebellion.