The Wayuus in Inferno

Although Dante’s Inferno does not mention the Wayuu culture directly because when it was written America had not even been discovered and thus it was impossible for Dante to know they existed. However, if the Wayuu had to be put in one circle of inferno I think that they would be put in the First Circle, or the Limbo. This is the place where people that have not been baptized go because as they have not identified themselves with God, He cannot punish them for committing no sins, but they can’t go to heaven either. Dante says that although they might have worshiped a God, they did this in wrong ways and they will have to stay in the Limbo for living before Christianity. A quote that supports this from the text is, “…they did not sin; and yet, though they have merits, that’s not enough, because they lack baptism, the portal of faith that you embrace. And if they lived before Christianity, they did not worship God in fitting ways…” (Dante, Inferno, pg. 33)