el lugar de los muertos

ESPAÑOL INGLES

It is truth that is lived on the Earth?

Not by always in the Earth: just a little bit here

although it is jade it brakes,

although it is gold it brakes,

although it is quetzal plumage it tears,

Not by always in the Earth: just a little bit here .

Nezahualcóyotl

THE PLACE OF DEADS

IN THE NAHUATL CULTURE

▪ To understand the culture of a town is necessary to know two necessary elements in wich human life occurs: time and space. ▪ These, are the cardinal axes of which all the explanations about men are constructed. ▪ Myths and legends are constituted from the weave of times and places, in which the interweaving of these generates images that leave the actors who offer us the own knowledge uncovered.

▪ Cultural times always make reference to the well-known and the stranger. ▪ The well-known is what it is in before or that comes from it (of the past), and that can occupy the place of now (the present). ▪ Whereas the stranger is sent to two moments: the one that are about to come, the future, and the one that happened before the first one, the original time. ▪ The diverse cultures “put” these times of different ways.

▪ In all cultural times and places, are especially important those from which the explanation of an always mysterious and inevitable phenomenon for the men occurs: death. ▪ This or these places of the death, of deads, are particularly interesting in the Nahuatl culture.

▪ People chosen by Tlaloc, God of rain, people removed from the earth (of the alive ones) with a death brought about by him - the drowned ones, thundered against by ray-, goes to Tlalocan, that is a happy destiny in which they did not lack foods and in which they live tlaloque, Gods of long hair.

▪ Those that have died in war, such as the soldiers as the captives arrive at a third place of death, the Omeyocan, there, where the Sun or hitzilopochtli lives. ▪ They accompany the star from its exit, to the “course of the women”, there where those who have died during the childbirth, the “divine women”.