Nota sobre la fusión y la fisión de los dioses en el Panteón mexica

Abstract

Understanding the ancient Mesoamerican Indigenous pantheon with its great diversity of deities, is further complicated by their change of attire and emblems, as well as their many names. However, a characteristic which stands out in their classification, and which is inherent to the nature of Mesoamerican world views, is their fusion and fission; i.e., the cases in which a group of gods is also conceived as a single divinity, and the instances where a single god can separate into different entities, distributing his attributes. We must assume that the logic of these process can aid in understanding more ample concepts, and even some types of relationships and social processes, as well as political norms in which the cult of the patron gods had an important role. in this article, these phenomena of fission and fusion are suggested as tools for analysis, inquiring whether divine identities can be found in settlement patterns, political alliances, kinship, social class, and the identification of patron gods. In this way, many possibilities for new research our outlined. Further, a critique of a study on Tlaltecuhtli-Tonatiuh is made, as a possible case of the fusion of deities.