Abstract

DIAZ BARRIGA CUEVAS, Alejandro. Rites of passage of the nahua childhood in Izcalli. Estud. cult. náhuatl [online]. 2013, vol.46, pp.199-221. ISSN 0071-1675.

Every four years, in Izcalli, the last veintena (20-day period) of the year, the nahuas conducted a number of rituals with the children: they were pierced the ears, stretched them to grow up, made them dance and gave them to drink until get drunk. This article analyses these rituals, which contain various elements that enable to assume it was a complex ritual of passage between two phases of childhood and social youth.

Keywords : Izcalli; childhood; social youth; ritual of passage; ritual piercing.

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