Arturo Gutiérrez
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
Solar Calendars and Ceremonial Centers: A System of Transformations between Huicholes, Coras and Hopis.
In recent works I have proposed that the ceremonial centers called by the Huicholes tukipa, operate as true solar calendars tied to the basic principles of: a) the knowledge the people have about the solar and sidereal cycles; b) the link between these cycles with ceremonial organization; c) the previous points expressed by way of a cosmovision.
This presentation is an attempt to observe how these principles, when displaced to a neighboring culture like the Cora, operate with distinct expressions but under the same systemic principle. Once the basic principles are profiled it is necessary to carry out a comparison with more removed groups, in this case with the Hopi kivas, which are also important solar calendars that express a cosmovision by means of the kachina cargo system.
