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Supremo"
Author(s): Martín Lienhard
Source: Hispamérica, Año 7, No. 19 (Apr., 1978), pp. 3-12
Published by: Saul Sosnowski
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Apuntes sobre los desdo
blamientos, la mitolog?a
americana y la escritura
en "Yo el Supremo" MART?N LIENHARD
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4 MART?N LIENHARD
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APUNTES SOBRE. . . "YO EL SUPREMO" 5
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APUNTES SOBRE. . . "YO EL SUPREMO" 7
Substrato mitol?gico
El texto de "Yo el Supremo", como el personaje, ofrece varias
"caras", algunas de las cuales bastante expl?citas, como la que
deriva de los textos de los Rengger, Robertson, etc.
Existe, sin embargo, una cara mucho m?s subterr?nea y que
se "traiciona" en pocas ocasiones : la mitolog?a guaran?. Quiz?s su
car?cter algo secreto sea una consecuencia del signo de la oralidad
que lo domina. Volviendo al parentesco que parece existir entre
ciertos rasgos de El Supremo y algunos rasgos generales de los
h?roes m?ticos, citaremos algunos elementos de la mitolog?a gua
ran?,5 que ofrecen un inter?s evidente para nuestro prop?sito.
En la cosmogon?a mby?,6 el Primer Padre ?amandu, surgido
5 Para los elementos mitol?gicos, consult? sobre todo: Le?n C?dog?n y Alfredo
L?pez Austin, La literatura de los Guaran?es, M?xico, Joaqu?n Mortiz, 1970; Alfred
M?traux, La religion des Tupinambas et ses rapports aveo\ celle des autres tribus
Tupi-Guarani, Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1928; y del mismo autor, Religions et magies
indiennes d'Am?rique du Sud, Paris, Gallimard, 1967; Ejgon Schaden, Ensaio etno
sociol?gico sabre a mitolog?a heroica de algumas tribus ind?genas do Brasil, Sao
Paulo, 1946.
6 L. Cadog?n y A. L?pez Austin, pp. 51-73.
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