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RE: ADSactly Culture: Huio: Venezuela’s Aboriginal “Great Serpent”
Such a fascinating post. Well documented and organized.
It's a reason of pride for us to have been part of the same university that at some point had such brilliant scholars like Civrieux.
It is also humbling that foreigners like himself took the mission of documenting our culture, leaving us with this wonderful body of work.
Interesting how ancient myth and legents somehow confirm some archeaological discoveries, like feathered reptiles. Out primitive peoples might not have been as primitive as they have been portraited to be.
I appreciate your reading, @hlezama. Marc de Civrieux was, without a doubt, an important researcher, one of the most outstanding that the Universidad de Oriente de Venezuela hosted. Unfortunately, I believe that his contributions have not been fully valued both in our university and in the Venezuelan and American academy in general.
The mythical symbol of the "feathered serpent" -Quetzalcóatl, for the Nahuas- is, from my knowledge, one of the most significant of the primitive cultures (in the best sense, that is to say, the first); its cultural richness is very complex and surprising.