Abstract

RAMIREZ TORRES, Juan Luis. The Transformed Jaguar: A poliedric Hypothesis about El Caballito Blanco Dance. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2012, vol.40, pp.191-225. ISSN 0185-2574.

Starting from the notions of complexity (Edgar Morin) and semiosphere (Iuri Lotman) and in the framework of the cultural matrix constituted by Mesoamerica, we analyze the symbolic system of El Caballito Blanco (The Little White Horse), a Maya-Chontal dance, systematically associated to the symbolism of the Mayan and Mesoamerican jaguar. In order to do so, a methodological strategy is proposed; it consists in classifying the symbolic set constructed along history by heterogeneous signifiers and signifieds, supported on the geometry of the polyhedron as a way of thinking and analytically order the yokot'an semeiotic continuum and upon which we put forward an explanation for the process of symbolic transformations occurred in the indigenous cultural becoming, from the mythical feline to the Iberian equine, but where both are integrated in the same structure always with Chontal-yokot'an meaning, in particular, and with Mayan constants, in general.

Keywords : Jaguar; Little White Horse; Chontal-yokot'an; complexity; symbol.

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