Publication: La deidad infanticida: del romance de ‘La nodriza del infante’ al ‘Mahabharata‘ y un cuento bereber
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Abenójar, Óscar
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Universidad de Murcia, Editum
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Abstract
En
la primera parte de
este artículo se estudian y comparan algunos mitos
de
la
I
ndia védica, la Grecia clásica y
e
l Egipto
antiguo
acerca de una divinidad que
abrasa o ahoga a una víctima
infantil para hacerla inmortal.
En la segunda
sección se aportan
nuev
a
s versiones de este tipo narrativo que han sido
recogidas en época reciente; u
n
a
s en forma de balada
–
en Transilvania y en la
Moldavia rumana
–
y otr
a
s en forma de cuento tradicional, en una aldea
bereber
del Atlas argelino.
Al final de
estas páginas
se recogen algunas conclusiones relativas al contenido y
a las ramas de esta narrac
ión, a la que hemos denominado
La divinidad
infanticida
. En
est
a última sección se incluyen algunas consideraciones acerca del
perfil de
los protagonistas de
estos relatos, y se reflexiona
, asimismo,
acerca de
los rituales de propiciación de la inmortalida
d que en ellos se mencionan
I n the first part of this paper , we report some myths of the Vedic India, classical Greece, and Ancient Egypt about a divinity who burns or sinks a child vi ctim in order to making him immortal. In the second section , w e provide new versions of this plot that have been reported in recent times ; o ne of them in the form of a ballad – in Transylvania and the Moldavian Romania – and the other in the form of a folk - t ale – in a small village in the Algerian Atlas. At the end of this article , we present some conclusions regarding the content and the branches of this plot. In that section, we discuss some considerations about the deities and the victims of these stories, and describe , as well, the rituals of propitiation of immortality that are mentioned in them .
I n the first part of this paper , we report some myths of the Vedic India, classical Greece, and Ancient Egypt about a divinity who burns or sinks a child vi ctim in order to making him immortal. In the second section , w e provide new versions of this plot that have been reported in recent times ; o ne of them in the form of a ballad – in Transylvania and the Moldavian Romania – and the other in the form of a folk - t ale – in a small village in the Algerian Atlas. At the end of this article , we present some conclusions regarding the content and the branches of this plot. In that section, we discuss some considerations about the deities and the victims of these stories, and describe , as well, the rituals of propitiation of immortality that are mentioned in them .
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