Open AccessEl diluvio y otros relatos de la huasteca hidalguense
Author(s) -
Neville Stiles,
Ildefonso Maya,
M. Rosario Carcas Castillo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
tlalocan/tlalocan: revista de fuentes para el conocimiento de las culturas indígenas de méxico.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2954-5242
pISSN - 0185-0989
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.1985.102
Subject(s) - nahuatl , humanities , maya , history , flood myth , art , ethnology , geography , archaeology
The three stories included in this paper were recorded by the reseatther during the summer of 1978, in Chililico and Huejutla, both in the municipality of Huejutla de Reyes, Hidalgo. Vatiations originally found in the Nahuatl test —e.g. optional changes between the phonernes /t/ and /tl/— have been left unmodified. The first story, narrated by Ildefonso Maya Hernandez, deals with the origin of the Huasteca Nahua Indians and the great flood. The second story —"The Rablyit"— is a somewhat syncretic version of the first, mixing both Nahua and biblical features, and again using the rabbit and the great flood as a dominating event. The final story is a modified version of Cinderella, which could also be titled "Mary Ashes".