El doble personaje del planeta Venus en las religiones indígenas del Gran Nayar: mitología, ritual agrícola y sacrificio
The double personality of planet Venus in indigenous religions of the Gran Nayar: mythology, agricultural rites, and sacrifice. Indigenous religion of West Mexico’s Gran Nayar region offers important clues for understanding Ancient Mesoamerica’s cults of planet Venus. The fact that among Cora-Indian...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/512 |
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| Summary: | The double personality of planet Venus in indigenous religions of the Gran Nayar: mythology, agricultural rites, and sacrifice. Indigenous religion of West Mexico’s Gran Nayar region offers important clues for understanding Ancient Mesoamerica’s cults of planet Venus. The fact that among Cora-Indians, and, to a lesser extent, among Huichols and local Nahuas, Venus-related mythology has been maintained should not be taken as something circumstantial. Rather, the periodic transformations of Morning and Evening Star corroborate a main cultural paradigm. The very particular way the antagonism between the two aspects of one astral deity is understood can be taken as a conceptual model explaining a whole range of religious practices and believes, from agricultural and rain-related ceremonies to ritual deer-hunt and sacrifice. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |