La Inquisición de Tlalhuacpan: el culto a la lluvia entre los otomíes del Mezquital.

The inquisition of Tlalhuacpan: cult of rain among otomíes of the Mezquital.

GODS; ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis; RITUAL; SELF-sacrifice; HISTORICAL source material; SIXTEENTH century; ETHNOLOGY; HOPE

El proceso de indios de Tlalhuacpan es un documento inquisitorial de principios del siglo xvi, donde se narra haber encontrado a un par de indios otomíes por parte de las autoridades coloniales, realizando autosacrificios para sus antiguas deidades prehispánicas. La finalidad de este artículo es analizar los personajes y las acciones que se llevaban a cabo en este ritual y comprender su importancia entre las poblaciones otomíes cercanas, zona conocida actualmente como Valle del Mezquital. Este documento se examina mediante un análisis de corte etnohistórico, en la que se confrontan diferentes fuentes escritas como la etnográfica, arqueológica e histórica, con el fin de comprender el cercano vínculo que tuvo este ritual para el mantenimiento social, con la esperanza de tener buenas cosechas y propiciar las lluvias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of indians of Tlalhuacpan is an inquisitorial document of the early sixteenth century, where it is narrated to have found a pair of otomíes indians by the colonial authorities, making self-sacrifices to their ancient pre-hispanic deities. The purpose of this article is to analyze the personages and actions that were carried out in this ritual to understand its importance among the otomíes populations, an area that is currently known as Valle del Mezquital. This document is examined through an ethnohistorical analysis, in which different written sources such as ethnographic, archaeological and historical are confronted, in order to understand the relation that this ritual had for social maintenance, with the hope of having good harvests and propitiating the rains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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