Incorporating human sacrifice; flaying; and mock warfare; the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli; or “Sweeping;†has long attracted attention. Although among the best known of eighteen annual ceremonies; Ochpaniztli’s significance has nevertheless been poorly understood. Ochpaniztli is known mainly from early colonial illustrated manuscripts produced in cross-cultural collaboration between Spanish missionary-chroniclers and native Mexican informants and artists.Although scholars typically privilege the manuscripts’ textual descriptions; Sweeping the Way examines the fundamental role of their pictorial elements; which significantly expand the information contained in the texts. DiCesare emphasizes the primacy of the regalia; ritual implements; and adornments of the patron “goddess†as the point of intersection between sacred; cosmic forces and ceremonial celebrants. The associations of these paraphernalia indicate that Ochpaniztli was a period of purification rituals; designed to transform and protect individual and communal bodies alike. Spanish friars were unable to apprehend the complex nature of the festival’s patroness; ultimately fragmenting her identity into categories meeting their expectations; which continues to vex modern investigations.Taken together; the variety of Ochpaniztli sources offer a useful tool for addressing myriad issues of translation and transformation in pre-Columbian and post-conquest Mexico; as Christian friars and native Mexicans together negotiated a complex body of information about outlawed ritual practices and proscribed sacred entities.
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