Published 2017-05-09
Abstract
his essay gives an account of the poetic character of an apparently poor, incoherent and disconcerting myth that, as the reader will discover, contains a sacred, initiatory or sapiential trait. It reconstructs the myth of Uixtocíhuatl, or the Goddess of Salt in Ancient Mexico, from the perspective of the hermeneutics of the symbol (M. Eliade, G. Durand, K. Kerényi, etc.); the roots of a cult, recorded above all in the 16th century by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, but which survive until recent decades.