Fidel Camacho He holds a degree in Ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History (2011) and a master's degree in Mesoamerican Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).unam) (2017). Winner of the inah "Fray Bernardino de Sahagún" 2012 in the category of best undergraduate thesis in Ethnology and Social Anthropology. Author of the book: The path of flowers. Mythology and inter-ethnic conflict in the Warejma and the pajko of the Mayos of Sonora (2019) and, co-authored with Diego Ballesteros, Verbal mythical narrative in the Mayo River. Approaches to the sacred universe of an Amerindian group (Cahíta). (2020). He has published several articles on ritual processes and staging contexts among the Mayos of Sonora and the Mazahuas of the State of Mexico. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the same graduate program of the unam.

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The earth rumbles. Ténabarim, koyolim and senaaso. Amerindian mythology of Pajko'ola musical instruments.

  • Fidel Camacho

During his dance, the Pajko'ola performs various percussion instruments by shaking: ténabarim, koyolim and senaaso. The analysis of each one cannot be separated from the mythology that underlies the character, which is associated with the Earth and telluric movements. The existence of a complex related to predominantly feminine entities and "wild beasts" -ancient women or ogres- of the type "Old men of the dance" and nocturnal lepidoptera is proposed here. The review of this approach is not exhaustive, but it allows us to locate aspects of the mythology of Yuto-Nahuas groups and other linguistic affiliations, present and past, from Mexico and other places. From the mythology of "noise" it is possible to locate the Pajko'ola and its musical instruments as belonging to the domain of darkness.