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This article discusses a religious movement occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century (1769) in a marginal region of New Spain, known as Sierra de Tutotepec (current state of Hidalgo). This was led by an old Otomi Indian who preached the imminent end of the world, and the advent of a new world in which the Indians would be the lords and masters, while the Spanish would be their servants. It examines, first, the context in which this religious movement emerged, emphasizing the political and economic conditions that prevailed in these villages, which led the Indians to embrace the message of salvation and social justice contained in the prophecies of their leader. It also analyzes the rebellious character of the prophecies, which show a profound ethnic antagonism and a rejection of the social position occupied by the Indians in the colonial order, and the desire of the Indians to appropriate the symbols of power and status of the Spanish, elements that can be clearly seen in the features that would have the new world that the Indians expected. |
