Religious beliefs and manifestations in agraphic communities
Abstract
This article aims to analyze the origins, symbols and traditions of an unwritten society, the wayuu ethnic group from whose mythological conceptions emerges their way of understanding the creation of the world, the origin of things and, above all, the relationship that this people has with the gods, as well as the role that nature acquires, conceived as a deity.
We will address the evangelizing role carried out by the missionaries who arrived at the place, as well as their conversion work aimed at preventing any demonstration that claimed religious beliefs contrary to the Catholic religion.
We will discover how the ancestral beliefs and religious manifestations of this people based on myths, rituals and songs confirm their values and religious norms, exhibitions without a doubt that will allow us to better understand their individual and collective identity.
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