Abstract

CARREON FLORES, Jaime Enrique  and  CAMACHO IBARRA, Fidel. Los animales del santo: Configuración del nahualismo en la región mazahua. Cuicuilco [online]. 2011, vol.18, n.51, pp.203-225. ISSN 0185-1659.

This article describes the relation of the human being and supernatural beings, which include at santo patrono, ancestors, coyotes and snakes. A procedure that we will permit knows a system of symbolic transactions in structure of social control similar in others studies on nagualism. This work describes those beings providing them an important role in the universe and classifying them hierarchically in aquatic and land dimensions. Too this work describes the importance of saint in community, the coyote and the snake and the activities aimed to the men that represent a disturb element for social reproduction of mazahua group.

Keywords : Santo patrono; nagualism; mazahua group.