Huichol mythology / by Robert M. Zingg ; edited by Jay C. Fikes, Phil C. Weigand, and Acelia García de Weigand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zingg, Robert M. (Robert Mowry), 1900-1957.

Contributor:

Fikes, Jay C. (Jay Courtney), 1951-

Weigand, Phil C.

García de Weigand, Celia, 1933-

Standardized Title:

Mitología de los huicholes. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Huichol mythology--Mexico--Tuxpan de Bolaños.

Huichol Indians--Mexico--Tuxpan de Bolaños--Portraits.

Huichol Indians--Mexico--Tuxpan de Bolaños--Rites and ceremonies.

Legends--Mexico--Tuxpan de Bolaños.

Legends.

Huichol Indians.

Rites and ceremonies.

Huichol mythology.

Tuxpan de Bolaños (Mexico)--Social life and customs.

Mexico--Tuxpan de Bolaños.

Genre:

Portraits.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 290 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2004]

Contents:

I. Myths of the Dry Season Cycle

A. The Birth of Tatevali (Grandfather Fire) and the Contest of Fire and Water (Nakawe) 3

B. The Sun Myth 8

1. Sub-story: The Jimson-weed Myth 16

2. Sub-story: Kauymali Counteracts the Black-Magic of Jimson-weed with Peyote 19

3. Sub-story: Kauymali Vaccinates the People and Brings the Sun Back to the Sky by His Ceremony and Singing 21

C. First Peyote (Deer) Journey Brings the Sun to the Sky 24

D. Myth of the Huichol Temple (Tuki) 40

1. Sub-story: Myth of the Huichol God-House 48

E. Kauymali Helps the Sun Win Over the Rain-Goddesses in First Getting Deer's Blood for the Sacred Paraphernalia 52

F. Kauymali, the Wolf-Man, Is Outsmarted but Gets Revenge 60

1. Sub-story: Kauymali Is Outsmarted by the Moon 60

2. Sub-story: Kauymali Is Outsmarted by Hortiman, the Wind-devil 63

G. Youth Changes His Affiliations from the Sea-Goddesses to the Sun-Father and Makes a Vow to the Wolf[-]People in Order to Catch Deer 68

II. The Wet Season Cycle of the Mythology

A. Keamukame Establishes the Corn Ceremonies and Feasts 79

B. The Water-and-Corn Goddess, Kaciwali, and the Ant-People 85

C. Nakawe Punishes [the] (God)People Because the Sea Turtle Is Killed 92

D. The Corn Myth 96

1. [Sub-story:] The Creation of a Race through the Corn-People 96

2. [Sub-story:] The Struggle of the Sun and Nakawe (Dry and Wet Season) over Creation 113

a. Sun Saves One Boy from the Toothed Vaginas 113

b. Nakawe Destroys the Race and the World by Flood: The Huichol-Christian Flood Myth 120

c. The Origin of the Mexicans 124

3. [Sub-story:] Nakawe Assigns the Gods and the Goddesses Their Homes 125

a. Ereno's Child, Stuluwiakame [Huichol Goddess of Birth], Stolen and Rescued 126

b. The Cave of Kaciwali 129

c. The Cave of Nakawe 129

d. The Assignment of Rapawiemi 130

e. The Continuation of Nakawe's Work in Dividing the World 130

4. [Sub-story:] The Story of Duck-Boy, TumuSauwi 132

a. The Origin of the Huichols by the Removal of Teeth from the Vaginas of the Women to be Married to TumuSauwi 132

b. Kauymali's Usual Sexual Weakness Brings Death to the Huichols 141

c. The Birth, Puberty (?), [and] First Fruits Ceremonies Established 150

d. Palikata (Elder Brother?) Saves TumuSauwi's Abandoned Child, Which Becomes the Water-Goddess, Na'aliwaeme 157

e. Na'aliwaeme Gives Increase of Crops and Cattle for the Fulfillment of Special Vows 160

f. Na'aliwaeme Aids the Survivor of Black Magic and Punishes the Unsuccessful Shamans 162

E. The Snake-Man's Illicit Love for the Wife of a Huichol Begets the First Rain and Curing Singers of the Huichols 166

F. "Mayor" Nasario, the Orphan-boy, Saves His Brothers from the Ghoul, Tukakame, but Contaminated and Changed to Chipmunks (?), They Bring Insanity to the Huichols 173

G. Death Comes to the Woman of the Mythical Pre-Huichol Race, Eawali, Who Loved Bear and Buzzard [Origin of "Death-bird" Ghouls] 179

III. The Christian Myth Cycle

A. The Bee-Mother Gives Wax for Candles 187

1. Sub-story: The Domesticated Bees (castil itsic, H.) 193

B. The Birth of the Saints 196

1. Sub-story: Santo Cristo and the Julios (Jews) 200

2. Sub-story: Santo Cristo Leaves to Establish the World and the Customs of the Mexicans 204

3. Sub-story: The Virgin of Guadalupe and San Jose 208

C. The Myth of Santo Cristo 211

1. Sub-story: Santo Cristo Establishes Metal and Money 211

2. Sub-story: The Jews Are Punished by the Sun for Pursuing Santo Cristo 214

3. Sub-story: Santo Cristo Makes Cattle from Wheat, etc. 215

4. Sub-story: The Sun Battles Nakawe to Save the World Made by Santo Cristo 218

5. Sub-story: Santo Cristo Establishes Cattle Ceremonies among the Huichols 220

6. Sub-story: Santo Cristo Establishes the Government as well as Carnival and Holy Week Ceremonies among the Huichols 222

7. Sub-story: Santo Cristo Prepares for Death 227.

Notes:

"Originally published in Spanish as La mitología de los Huicholes"--Verso t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-290).

ISBN:

0816523177

OCLC:

54374724