The “Heart of the Mountain” among the Postclassic Zapotec
The iconography of Mesoamerican deities is usually studied from a comparative point of view, even though the materials favour a methodology based on the semiotics of natural religions. Images referring to the “Heart of the Mountain”, for example, go from the abstract to the concrete, although the re...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anales de Antropología |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/40055 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/40055 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Heart of the Mountain Tepeyollotli Tezcatlipoca Zapotec Mesoamerican deities Corazón del Monte zapotecos dioses mesoamericanos |
| Sumario: | The iconography of Mesoamerican deities is usually studied from a comparative point of view, even though the materials favour a methodology based on the semiotics of natural religions. Images referring to the “Heart of the Mountain”, for example, go from the abstract to the concrete, although the relationship of Tepeyollotli with the natural forces could not be represented in a corporalized way. This paradox is solved when the deity’s attributions are considered in terms of Charles Peirce’s triadic conception of a sign. |
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