Abstract

CAMPOS THOMAS, Tania Hélène. AGUA Y ENFERMEDAD ENTRE ALGUNOS GRUPOS MAYAS DURANTE LA COLONIA. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2006, n.3, pp.155-174. ISSN 1900-5407.

Along history, The Mexican People for all the different ethnic groups in the country has had water in high regard in their religious corpus, either in the symbolic way or the religious level. As evidence of this we can mention the cults to Tlaloc in Mesoamerica and chak in the Maya region, and the numerous depictions produced by chronicle writers as well as the ones found in the Maya codices containing rites and giving close records of the beliefs in which water had a fundamental role. Similarly, the Maya culture nowadays preserves that same close relation between water and health-illness. This article is a first investigative look into this subject intending to restrict time and objectives and also with the aim of recording the way in which some Maya ethnic groups were related to water during the Colonial period. Despite the Colonial period was the historical framework imposed as the limit to the present paper, it has been inevitable to make reference to customs and activities of contemporary Maya groups.

Keywords : Water; Health-illness; Therapeutic Systems.

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