Hurtling off a Precipice, Falling into a River: A Nahuatl Metaphor and the Christian Concept of Sin

Autor:	Agnieszka Brylak
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Literature Nahuatl History 060101 anthropology business.industry Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject 06 humanities and the arts Art language.human_language 060104 history Anthropology language 0601 history and archaeology Falling (sensation) business media_common
Zdroj:	Ethnohistory. 66:489-513
ISSN:	1527-5477 0014-1801
Popis:	This article centers on a contextual analysis of the Nahuatl metaphor atoyatl tepexitl as attested in the colonial sources belonging to different genres: from devotional literature, like doctrinal treatises and religious plays, to sacred narratives on pre-Hispanic gods (e.g., the mockeries of Tezcatlipoca in Tula). Due to its compatibility with the Christian negative valuation of falling and the existence of similar expressions in Spanish, this couplet was adopted by friars to render the concept of sin. The article points to possible ambiguities and confusions that establishing such equivalency must have caused early after the conquest, and attempts to unravel the possible pre-Hispanic ramifications of the metaphor.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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