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Titre Mujer-serpiente en México. De Cihuacóatl a Lukas Avendaño
Auteur Gloria Luz Godínez Rivas
Mir@bel Revue Amerika
Numéro No 11, 2014 Monstres et monstruosités dans les représentations esthétiques et sociales
Rubrique / Thématique
Thématique
 Monstres et monstruosités
Résumé anglais The snake plays tow opposite roles in the origin of myths of what's believed : the Judaeo-Christian, where the slithering animal is the cause of sin and shame, and the Mexica, where the snake is beginning of life, fertility, birth and health. In both myths the woman is closely linked to the snake. In the Tenochca myth, the snake-woman, well known as Cihuacóatl, allows to recreate a series of marks of otherness in our culture : touch, surface, desire, seduction, slithering instinct, change of skin and forked tongue. This last notion, the divided tongue, bring us the well known historic person called La Malinche, a woman translator who makes it possible “to understand” (destinated to misunderstanding) between Mexican native Americans and Spanish in the Conquest of Nueva España. La llorona, or The Weeper, popular monster in Mexico, appears as an urban legend and also as a cultural merchant makes the union between Cihuacóatl and La Malinche. For detonate the subversive force of the snake-woman, we make the analysis of Lukas Avendaño, an homosexual Mexican native performer who poses naked with a lizard, in his community there are three sexs: men, women and muxes.
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