Precious Stones and Woven Things:: The Poetic Construction of a Nahua New Jerusalem in the Psalmodia Christiana’s Suchicuicat

• Vega, Martín ^[1]
  1. [1] Scripps College

     Scripps College

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Calíope: journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Society, ISSN 1084-1490, Vol. 31, Nº. 1, 2026, págs. 62-81
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5325/caliope.31.1.0062
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    Este artículo propone que la figura de las piedras preciosas en el Suchicuicatl, una canción dedicada a la Pascua y que forma parte de la Psalmodia Christiana, constituye el eje de una doble operación: la nahuatlización de la liturgia cristiana y la cristianización de la poética nahua. El resultado de esta doble operación es una nueva visión, distintivamente nahua, de la ciudad celestial, es decir, la Nueva Jerusalén que aparece en el Apocalipsis del Nuevo Testamento.

  • English

    Abstract This article proposes that the motif of precious stones in the Psalmodia Christiana’s Suchicuicatl (a song written in Nahuatl and dedicated to Easter) forms the crux of a dual operation: the Nahuatlization of Christian liturgy and the Christianization of Nahua poetics. The result of that dual operation is a new, distinctly Nahua vision of the heavenly city, or New Jerusalem, described in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation.

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