The message of the myths: Founding heroes and origin of the food in memory of Andean peoples

Authors

  • Román Robles Mendoza Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/antropologia.v0i5.19996

Keywords:

Myths Andean, Collective memory, Resistance ideological, Andean Gods, Vichama, Mama Rayguana

Abstract

In this work join and reinterpret the legendary mythics more representative of the central-Andean region from Peru, collected by the priests assigned to execute the ecclesiastical policy of “removal of idolatries” of the seventeenth century, as a result of the failure of more than a century conversion of Indians to Catholicism. Francisco de Avila, Bernardo de Novoa and other idolatries removers confirm the tenacious resistance ideological by indigenous people of Huanuco, Cajatambo, Huarochirí, Vegueta, which continued practicing their ideas and beliefs, rites and ceremonies to their deities, while simulating having become a believer of the religion of Europe. From the reproduction of already published versions of myths about the origin of the gods, ethnic groups, food and springs, are analysed and reinterpreted in their meanings and messages.

Author Biography

  • Román Robles Mendoza, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru

    Antropólogo, graduado y titulado en la UNMSM. Es Profesor Principal del Departamento Académico de Antropología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Actualmente ejerce el cargo de Director Académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Autor de libros: La banda de músicos: las bellas artes musicales al sur de Ancash (2000), Legislación peruana sobre comunidades campesinas (2002) y varios artículos y ponencias de su especialidad en revistas nacionales, compilaciones y congresos.

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Published

2007-12-31

Issue

No. 5 (2007)

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The message of the myths: Founding heroes and origin of the food in memory of Andean peoples. (2007). Revista De antropología, 5, 91-132. https://doi.org/10.15381/antropologia.v0i5.19996