Nezahualcóyotl es Tláloc en la Sierra de Texcoco: historia nahua, recreación simbólica
2012; Servicio de Publicaciones; Volume: 42; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5209/rev_reaa.2012.v42.n1.38636
ISSN1988-2718
Autores Tópico(s)Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
ResumoNezahualcóyotl, the Tlatoani of the Texcocan Empire, was the monarch who designed a regional irrigation system and announced rules to regulate the distribution and administration of water. Tlaloc, the Mexicas’ god of rain, was identified with a mountain and provided rain in the region. In the Sierra of Texcoco today, both the monarch and the god are the one and only figure: Tlaloc-Nezahualcóyotl, King of the Sea, to whom the natives pray for rain on which their water supply depends. How did this transformation occur? A revision of the pre-Hispanic and colonial documentary sources and the ethnological myths allows the clues to be traced. Syncretism is irrelevant in this context: the problem is why and how the Nahuas have reread and updated their own history.
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