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SANCHEZ CARRILLO, Óscar. CUERPO, CH’ULEL Y LAB ELEMENTOS DE LA CONFIGURACIÓN DE LA PERSONA TSELTAL EN YAJALÓN, CHIAPAS. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2007, vol.2, n.4, pp.222-279. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2007.4.222.

The present article pretends to analyze the relation of different spiritual entities and their corporal (body-) counterpart, that configure and shape the tzeltal person from the communities of Yajalon (county in northern Chiapas). The objective is to enounce the conceptions which the subjects have about the body and his animic entities that reside within: amongst others, the ch’ulel and lab creatures. With the animic entities the person configures itself with the only purpose to trace the line of his life and his destiny in the Balumilal – which means Earth and Cosmos. It is not surprising that the sacred language – K’opontik Dios-, in the prayers and songs of different religious and therapeutic rituals, establishes a parallelism between the human body and the humanized Earth. The earth is perceived as a space which encloses an extraordinary quantity of supernatural beings (yalak’ and chambalam) and at the same time, as one that tolerates humans and animals on its surface.

Palabras llave : Person; spiritual entities; health-disease; sacred language.

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