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Date of this Version
2023
Document Type
Article
Citation
Publicado en Segundo congreso internacional de iconografía precolombina, 2023. Actas. Victoria Solanilla Demestre, editora. Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, 2024. doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1702
Abstract
La voluntad de elaborar una pieza antropomorfa, es incidir sobre el objeto, haciéndolo actuante. Tratándose del mundo Malagana – sociedad prehispánica colombiana –, que consideró el papel primordial de la mujer, esta imagen femenina y robusta, en cerámica, de pie, portadora de una máscara, como pieza – soporte simbólica contendría en su epidermis y gesto, una narrativa ritual. Desarrollada en un espacio funerario, como ajuar, personificaría los atributos del mono aullador y convocante de los “espíritus (auxiliares) alter-ego”, de los monos ardilla, intervendría de forma ritualista sobre los humedales del pueblo Malagana, aportándoles el equilibrio para la inflorescencia de la Heliconia, y su significante como fertilidad de los campos y de la vida misma. Propiciatoria, evocaría el poder intrínseco de una chamana, receptáculo de la fuerza procreadora y la fertilidad simbólica.
The desire to make an anthropomorphic piece is to influence the object, making it acting. In the case of the Malagana world – colombian prehispanic society –, which considered the primary role of women, this feminine and robust image, in ceramic, standing, wearing a mask, as a piece – symbolic support would contain in its epidermis and gesture, a ritual narrative. Developed in a funerary space, as a trousseau, it would personify the attributes of the howler monkey and summoner of the “alter-ego (auxiliary) spirits”, of the squirrel monkeys, it would intervene in a ritualistic way on the wetlands of the Malagana town, providing them with balance for the inflorescence of the Heliconia, and its signifier as fertility of the fields and of life itself. Propitiatory, it would evoke the intrinsic power of a shaman, receptacle of procreative force and symbolic fertility.
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