De ‘Dios’, ‘pecados’, ‘demonios’ y otros vocablos en dos confesionarios en lengua náhuatl del siglo XVII

Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales

doi:10.18441/ind.v35i2.119-149

Of ‘God’, ‘Sins’, ‘Devils’ and Other Words in Two 17th Century Nahuatl Confession Manuals

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Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales Universidad de Guadalajara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v35i2.119-149

Keywords:

Nahuatl language, Christianisation, confession, linguistic register, 17th century

Abstract

The article explores some of the strategies Martín de León (1611) and Bartholomé de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl (1634) used in their Nahuatl confession manuals in order to understand the Christian contents. Although the previous work of Friar Alonso de Molina (1569) was accessible to the authors, they use their own style and express their concerns about the reception of Christianity among the Nahuatl-speaking population. I will review the development of the linguistic register called “Christian doctrine Nahuatl” in order to document the choices for referring to ‘god’, ‘sin’, ‘devil’, ‘hell’, and other important Christian terms. Then I will assess the aforementioned authors’ confession manuals in order to evaluate the validity of and changes to the previously employed Christian terms.

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Published

2018-12-17

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Dossier

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