The myth of Quetzalcóatl

• Autor: Florescano, Enrique
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1992
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/794
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/794
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Quetzalcóatl; Mesoamérica; héroes culturales

When Joseph Campbell set out long ago to cover the different manifestations of the culture hero, he discovered that they could number a thousand. In Mesoamerica at least, the combination of a god and a civilizing hero produced an endless stream of images. Quetzalcóatl is the great mythical figure, evocative of wisdom and civilization, and also the most ubiquitous and changeable of personalities: he has the quality of being reborn in all ages and showing himself in each of them with a different face, always haloed by the ancestral aura, but covered with new meanings and a soulful charge that mixes yearnings of the present with reverberations of the past.