The purépechas, were erroneously called tarascos also, this means brother-in- law, they’re a village who lived in the nord west of the Mexican state, Michoacán, mainly in the town of pátzcuaro and Uruapan.
In the prehispanic age, this village occupied most of Michoacán state, but they also occupied some of the inferior valleys of Guanajuato and Jalisco. Celaya, Ácambaro and Yurirapúndaro were also in the purépecha territory.
Talking about the religion, well, I can say that the purépecha religion was polytheistic, this means that they had multiple gods, it was based around a universe that had three parts, these are, the heaven, earth and underworld. There were three supreme gods, who were idolized Norge than any other, The most important was Curicaveri, this is the god of war and the sun. Some of the offerings they made to this god were auto sacrifices. His dominion was the heaven, it was associated with eagles, hawks, and other birds.
Cuerauáperi was a goddess, wife of the sun’s god, Curicaveri, she was a creating goddess, she was the Mother Earth, which controlled the life and rain, the dead and drought. The most important descendent of this goddess, was Xaratanga, she was the goddess of the sea and the moon. Her dominion was the Pacific Ocean and Se was simbolized as an owl, an old woman or a coyote.
It also existed the goddess of the bad, she was Auicamine.
So as other mesoamerican cultures, the purépecha one participated in human sacrifices, but it was in lesser extent than his enemies, the Aztecs.
Personally I love this culture, I think it is wonderful and one of the most complete cultures, I’m also impressed that they had that kind of religion because they were very similar to the Catholic one and it is also better than catholic in some ways because, for example, they weren’t afraid of the dead ones, the underworld was for the dead ones and there were no hell or heaven like now, what they referred to heaven was something else and I think that was a good way of living. I live purépechas.
So long, Karla Isabel.
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