El mito del diluvio en las ceremonias de entronización de los gobernantes mayas. Agentes responsables de la decapitación del saurio y nuevas fundaciones
Autora principal. El artículo deriva de la investigación central de la Tesis doctoral, además de temas centrales en la Investigación general sobre la cultura maya. Es el artículo más citado de todas mis publicaciones. ABSTRACT The decipherment of the texts of the Hieroglyphic Platform of Temple XIX...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| Repositorio: | BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:burjcdigital.urjc.es:10115/27671 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10115/27671 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cocodrilo Venado Estelar Huellas de pie Inundación Gobernantes Clásico maya |
| Sumario: | Autora principal. El artículo deriva de la investigación central de la Tesis doctoral, además de temas centrales en la Investigación general sobre la cultura maya. Es el artículo más citado de todas mis publicaciones. ABSTRACT The decipherment of the texts of the Hieroglyphic Platform of Temple XIX of Palenque corroborated that the classic vision of the myth of the flood was similar to that of certain colonial texts, in terms of pointing out the protagonist as a celestial crocodile. After being decapitated, the four trees of the world were placed on his body to raise and support the sky. Colonial sources clarify that, afterwards, a supernatural being stepped on the reptile's back. This action has been interpreted as a fertilization that marked the beginning of a new time; however, F. Scandar (2010) argues that the action of stepping on does not refer here to fertilizing, but to founding, and was represented in Mesoamerica with footprints. It is in this sequence of the myth, from the decapitation (death and end of chaos) to the action of stepping (reorganization of the new world), where our interest is focused on the monuments of access to the throne, in which we notice footprints that ascend and cross the trapped image of the crocodile. The essay proposes that the pre-Hispanic Maya lords, upon ascending the throne, visualized themselves as victorious mythical heroes who killed the saurian responsible for the flood (chaos) and as founders of a new world. |
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