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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Autor: Fahmel Beyer, Bernd
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
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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.