Abstract

URDAPILLETA CARRASCO, Jorge  and  MEJIA SEPET, Kajkan Felipe. The red staff of power perdures: Cultural knowledge of the Kaqchikel People. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.19, pp.108-141. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2015.19.47.

This paper analyzes the core elements of the cultural knowledge of the Kaqchikel people. It shows the essential role played by spirituality and how it orients life. Through reviewing some historical documents and interpretations shared by Kaqchikel spiritual guides, a pantheistic dialectic as a constitutional aspect of their cosmovision is revealed.

Keywords : cultural knowledge; cosmovision; resistance; spirituality; pantheistic dialectic.