“Wearing the Clothing of the Saint". Afro Characteristics in the Personality of San Baltazar through some Rites in his Cult in Argentina
Through its history, one can see traces of African roots in the popular cult of San Baltazar in Argentina. In spite of starting as an imposed devotion by the clergy and the Spanish Crown to the slaves in the middle of 18th Century, early the later could insert their own cultural traditions, producin...
| Autor Principal: | Cirio, Norberto Pablo |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | eng spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2014
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/7777 |
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Through its history, one can see traces of African roots in the popular cult of San Baltazar in Argentina. In spite of starting as an imposed devotion by the clergy and the Spanish Crown to the slaves in the middle of 18th Century, early the later could insert their own cultural traditions, producing a sort of sui generis syncretism. Now days, those traditions are present in some religious ceremonies, especially in the devotional area. So far they consider that he is the patron saint of the joy and fun, they celebrate him with music and dance, being some of them from black roots. In this paper I wish to analyze one of these religious principles. So far there isn't any difference between kings and goods, the divine personality has a bipolar behavior that comes to real in a unique entity movable-non movable, thing- human. In this way, being goods also kings and kings also goods, their divine and royal attributes are object of devotion and subordination by their faithful people-subjects. My hypothesis is that that black people could have applied this principle so far they knew that double characteristic of this saint: divine (he is a saint) and royal (he is one of the three Wise Men), compatible with their ancestral believes. |
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