The myth of Quetzalcóatl

Authors

  • Enrique Florescano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v24i40.794

Keywords:

Quetzalcóatl, Mesoamérica, héroes culturales

Abstract

When Joseph Campbell set out long ago to cover the different manifestations of the culture hero, he discovered that they could number a thousand. In Mesoamerica at least, the combination of a god and a civilizing hero produced an endless stream of images. Quetzalcóatl is the great mythical figure, evocative of wisdom and civilization, and also the most ubiquitous and changeable of personalities: he has the quality of being reborn in all ages and showing himself in each of them with a different face, always haloed by the ancestral aura, but covered with new meanings and a soulful charge that mixes yearnings of the present with reverberations of the past.

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Published

1992-12-14

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