With the Dance of the Flyers at Tajin, the hurricane wind flies

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Luisa Villani

Abstract

This paper analyzes the symbolism of the so-called Flyers Dance from a different point of view of the more generally accepted theory of the dance having essentially a solar connotation, as stated by Stresser-Péan. This study considers the dance as characterized by a hurricane logic, derived from my fieldwork in Tajín, and in other places and communities such as Plan de Hidalgo and Sierra Norte de Puebla.

I take into consideration the fact that people who still perform the Flyers Dance such as Totonacs, Huastecs, Tepehua, Nahuas and Otomís talk about a single symbolism, which, according to Stresser-
Péan, seems derived from the tolteca age. At least amongst the Totonac, as well as the Quichés form Guatemala, the dance had and still has characterisitics associated to the hurricane.

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Villani, L. (2018). With the Dance of the Flyers at Tajin, the hurricane wind flies. Annals of Anthropology, 52(2), 11–121. https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.24486221e.2018.2.63353

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