In the name of the God Wiracocha ...

Notes for the definition of a pre-Hispanic symbolic space

Authors

  • Henrique Urbano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v20i32.954

Keywords:

espacio simbólico, religión, culturas prehispánicas

Abstract

There are no mythical heroes in the Andes so mistreated, vilified and humiliated as the Wiracocha... Very little is known about their origins. But we all know where his bones ended up!... The chroniclers of the 16th and 17th centuries, piously repeated, plagiarized or praised to this day, chose one of them to express what the Catholic theology of those times understood by "Unique God", "God creator ex nihilo", "Apostle", in short, "unique and true God" (Urbano 1981, 1986, 1987). In those theological or historical writings or discourses, the heroes or the main hero of the mythical cycle becomes the finished expression of what the Spanish theologians and missionaries conceived as the ability to reach the knowledge of the true God through the works of creation. or from the first and original expressions of the creation of the world codified in the sacred Judeo-Christian writings (Urbano 1982, 1987).

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Published

2020-10-02

How to Cite

In the name of the God Wiracocha ...: Notes for the definition of a pre-Hispanic symbolic space. (2020). Allpanchis, 20(32), 135-154. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v20i32.954

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