San Isidro y San Isidoro regresan de Xibalbá: Microhistoria del origen de la agricultura en Mesoamérica

Abstract

The Lenca people is the majority indigenous culture in Honduras and its oral tradition involves elements of an original Mesoamerican worldview that is at risk of extincition. This tradition encompasses traces of mythical signs that are associated with the magical-religious ritual of the Composturas, an ceremony originally agricultural that is drawn on symbolic corpuses from rival traditions in the history of the imagination. The utterance of these stories through specific forms such as diphrasism is also significant since it may well facilitate access to the formulation of cognitive procedures that seem unusual to Western culture.