Alianza religiosa y realeza sagrada en el antiguo Michoacan

Abstract

Following a precedent work about the Tarascan sacred royalty, the main goal of this paper is to describe the specific type of link that unites the cazonci to the national god. Firstly, we will demonstrate that, in the governor initiatory process, the alliance with the divinity legitimizes his role. Exploring the Tarascan symbolic system, we will show that the relation between the god, the people, the kingdom and the king is described in terms of marriage, filiation and family in law. We will explain how this particular kind of link may also involve the cazonci’s wife and which mechanisms allow women to assume power roles. Finally, we will describe the central role of the alliance in the mythical constitution of the Taracan state.