Open AccessNa’ain Cho’on / El señor del trueno: un texto en mazateco de Ayautla
Author(s) -
Shun Nakamoto
Publication year - 2020
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.2020.0005
Subject(s) - miracle , apostle , saint , humanities , art , honor , grammar , literature , history , art history , philosophy , theology , linguistics , computer science , operating system
“El Señor del Trueno” is a story from the oral tradition of San Bartolomé Ayautla, Oaxaca. The story was narrated by Josefina Sánchez in En Nima or Ayautla Mazatec. The text tells a miracle performed by the Señor del Trueno for the man who went to the mountain in search of ocote wood, since the mayordomo needed ocote for the festival of labrada de velas in honor of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle. This article presents the textin two versions: a narrated and a written one. The article includes, in addition, an introduction to some aspects of Ayautla Mazatec grammar and a morphological analysis, a glossed version of the narrated text is included alongside a free translation.