Homshuk. Análisis temático del relato

Abstract

Among the indigenous myths from Mexico Homshuk, also called Saint of the Corn, is most important. The principal texts have been picked up among the popoluca, tzotzil, nahua, totonaco and tepehua, from the region of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, the northern mountains of Puebla and the Highlands of Chiapas. Undoubtedly the extension of the myth was wider because of its resemblances to the mythical adventures of the Popol vuh and to the supposed biography of Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl of Tollan. History relates how a personage goes to the home of lightning, where he recovers the corpse of his father and gets the commitment of the inhabitants for annually carrying the rains to the Earth. Homshuk resucitates Homshuk's father who dies immediately later. In this work we expose some general outlines to the thematical study of the mythical texts also applied to the concrete history of the Saint of the Corn.