The vision of the cosmos of existing indigenous

Abstract

When at the beginning of this century Eduard Seler dared to say that indigenous Mesoamerican shared the same vision of the world almost nobody took him seriously. What we call worldview (the ideas about the universe, nature and human beings) just began to be studied in the 1960s. Fernando Benitez, in his dazzling reports on indigenous forgotten, was one of the first to collect their interpretations of the stars, nature, ancestors, neighboring towns and the world Ladino. In those years the anthropologists collected the first data on the worldview of some villages in southern Mexico and began to relate this knowledge with the concepts developed by their ancestors in Mesoamerica. The confrontation between the ancient indigenous conceptions of the cosmos and currently maintain their descendants sheds unexpected light on the nature of those societies.