RELATOS Y RITUALIDADES EN TORNO AL LAGO­MUJER. PRÁCTICAS FESTIVAS Y NARRATIVAS EN ZIRAHUÉN

Abstract

The lake of Zirahuen (Michoacan, Mexico) is home to rituals that underlie the narratives and festivities of the inhabitants of the coastal villages. This paper combines fieldwork materials with ethnographic and historical sources to explain the different meanings of the cultural complex woman-lake, which may be understood as a geographical element and as a mythical construction embodied by two figures, the jicara (gourd) and the siren.