El mito de Quetzalcóatl
Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: When Joseph Campbell set out long ago to cover the different manifestations of the culture hero, he discovered that they could number a thousand. In Mesoamerica at least, the combination of a god and a civilizing hero produced an endless stream of images. Quetzalcóatl is the great mythical figure, evocative of wisdom and civilization, and also the most ubiquitous and changeable of personalities: he has the quality of being reborn in all ages and showing himself in each of them with a different face, always haloed by the ancestral aura, but covered with new meanings and a soulful charge that mixes yearnings of the present with reverberations of the past.
Source: Allpanchis
Author: Enrique Florescano
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1506769733