Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual

The cultivation and veneration of corn is central to all Mesoamerican cultures. Long before the Spaniards arrived indigenous people worshiped corn and pleaded for each harvest to be as good as the preceding one. Today’s Nahuas consider corn sacred and never permit it to lie on the ground: it must a...

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Autor principal:	Victoriano de la Cruz Cruz
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	nahuas Chicomexochitl maíz Chicontepec ritual Law K Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d57a3121c51548c4a0410126e5fc9e452021-11-27T13:08:33ZChicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual10.12797/Politeja.12.2015.38.101733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/d57a3121c51548c4a0410126e5fc9e452021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/2265https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 The cultivation and veneration of corn is central to all Mesoamerican cultures. Long before the Spaniards arrived indigenous people worshiped corn and pleaded for each harvest to be as good as the preceding one. Today’s Nahuas consider corn sacred and never permit it to lie on the ground: it must always be protected and sheltered. The Nahuas of Chicontepec, Veracruz continue to dance and pray to the corn deity, Chicomexochitl “Seven Flower”. This paper reveals the continuity of ritual practices and symbolism relating to the worship of maize in Nahua culture from prehispanic times to the present. It is based on the sixteenth‑century written sources, recent anthropological studies, and my own fieldwork associated with the Chicomexochitl ritual. Victoriano de la Cruz CruzKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticlenahuasChicomexochitlmaízChicontepecritualLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 12, Iss 6 (38) (2021)
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description	The cultivation and veneration of corn is central to all Mesoamerican cultures. Long before the Spaniards arrived indigenous people worshiped corn and pleaded for each harvest to be as good as the preceding one. Today’s Nahuas consider corn sacred and never permit it to lie on the ground: it must always be protected and sheltered. The Nahuas of Chicontepec, Veracruz continue to dance and pray to the corn deity, Chicomexochitl “Seven Flower”. This paper reveals the continuity of ritual practices and symbolism relating to the worship of maize in Nahua culture from prehispanic times to the present. It is based on the sixteenth‑century written sources, recent anthropological studies, and my own fieldwork associated with the Chicomexochitl ritual.
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title	Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual
title_short	Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual
title_full	Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual
title_fullStr	Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual
title_full_unstemmed	Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual
title_sort	chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual
publisher	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
publishDate	2021
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Chicomexochitl y el maíz entre los nahuas de Chicontepec: la continuidad del ritual

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