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Creencias, Prácticas Y Rituales NUESTRA COSMOVISIÓN: CREENCIAS, PRÁCTICAS Y RITUALES Serie Culturas Populares Centroamericanas Junio, 1999 Serie: Culturas Populares Centroamericanas - CECC Libro Nº 2: Nuestra Cosmovisión: Creencias, Prácticas y Rituales PRODUCCIÓN: Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana, CECC. Marvin Herrera Araya. Secretario General PATROCINIO: UNESCO Federico Mayor. Director General Juan Chong. Director Oficina Regional para Centroamérica. 3.05 Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana C795 Nuestra cosmovisión: creencias, prácticas y rituales / Giselle Chang… et. al. -- il. Juan Carlos Retana; rev. de texto Ximena del Río. -- San José, Costa Rica : CECC, 1999 400 p. : iL ; 27 cm. -- (Serie Culturas Populares Centroamericanas; nº 2) ISBN AMERICA CENTRAL / CULTURA POPULAR / FOLCLORE / CRÉDITOS: AUTORES: Costa Rica: Edición: Giselle Chang Vargas Giselle Chang Juan Carlos Retana Portada: Luis Ferrero Juan Carlos Retana Ilustraciones: Fernando González Giselle Chang V. Textos introductorios: Marcos Guevara Revisión de Texto: Ximena del Río Urrutia El Salvador: José Edgardo Espinoza Obando Miguel Amaya Diagramación y Levantado de Texto: Impresora Obando, S. A. Concepción Clara Impresión: Taller Gráfico Impresora Obando, S. A. Maribell Henríquez Guatemala: Coordinador Regional: Marvin Herrera Araya, Secretario General Gaspar González Coordinadores Nacionales: Hugo F. Sacor Q. Costa Rica: Giselle Chang V. Honduras: Centro de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural, Ministerio de Rebeca Becerra Cultura, Juventud y Deportes (MCJD) Lázaro Flores El Salvador: Vilma Maribell Henríquez C. Oscar Rápalo Dirección de Patrimonio Cultural (CONCULTURA) Nicaragua: Guatemala: Hugo Fidel Sacor Elba Sandoval V. Subcentro de Artesanías y Artes Populares (Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes) Milagros Palma Honduras: Ubelia Celis M., Ministerio de Cultura, Artes y Deporte Panamá: Nicaragua: Gustavo Adolfo Páez Pastor Durán Dirección Fondo Cultura, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes Celso Murillo Panamá: Ramón Oviero, Dirección Nacional de Publicación, Instituto Nacional Arnulfo Prestán de Cultura (INAC) Carmen Ureña II COLABORADORES COSTA RICA: HONDURAS: Centro de Investigación y Conser- Secretaría de Cultura y Artes vación del Patrimonio Cultural, Minis- Herman Allan Padget terio de Cultura. Pompeyo del Valle Lic. Evangelina Hernández Cortés Karen Daniela Ramos Sr. Víctor Hugo Zúñiga José Javier Vallejo Iris Pineda - IHAH M.A. Ximena del Río Urrutia Mauricio Danilo Perdomo Sr. Roberto Le Franc U., Lesly Dalila Vásquez Lic. Carmen Sojo Lic. Hannia Silesky J. Informantes: Odelia Dennis (Inf. Limón) Edilberto Borjas Guzmán Fitzroy Galtimore (Municipalidad de Lesbia Ramos Eguiguren Limón) José Dolores González Jorge Montenegro EL SALVADOR: Alex Osorio Dirección Nacional del Patrimonio Lourdes Valladares Cultural, CONCULTURA Lic. Lorenzo Amaya Guevara (Direc- PanamÁ: ción de Investigaciones) Informantes Sra. Xenia de los Ángeles Durán Ortiz Alicia de Lindo (Los Santos) Sra. Jenny Lissette González Salomón Vergara (Panamá) Sra. Amanda de Chávez Maritza Rivera (Las Tablas) Sra. Gloria H. de Villalobos Mirna González (Veraguas) Zoila C. de Castillero (Ocú, Herrera) GuaTEMALA: Celia de Franceschi (Tolé, Chiriquí) Unidad de Asuntos Étnicos y Sub- Miriam de Garlan (Chitré, Herrera) centro Regional de Artesanías y Artes Jaime Caballero (Natá, Coclé) Populares, Ministerio de Cultura y Isidora Mc Kay de Ortega (Colón) Deportes Anayansi Córdoba de Alvendras (Pan- Dr. Luis Luján Muñoz amá) Myriam L. de la Cerca Julieta de Romero (Taboga) Lic. Pedro Gaspar González Rodas NIcaragua: Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura Ruth Matilde Castillo Landera Carlos Alemán Ocampo Mayra Collado Antonio Sequeira VI • Nuestra Cosmovisión: Creencias, Costumbres y Rituales CONTENIDO PRESENTACIÓN .................................................................................VII Marvin Herrera Araya CAPÍTULO I CREENCIAS TRADICIONALES ...............................................................1 Costa Rica ..............................................................................................3 Recopiladora Giselle Chang El Salvador ...........................................................................................15 Recopiladora Maribell Henríquez Guatemala ............................................................................................25 Recopilador Hugo Fidel Sacor Honduras .............................................................................................27 Recopiladora Karen Daniela Ramos Nicaragua .............................................................................................41 Recopiladora Rosario de Fernández Panamá ................................................................................................51 Recopilador Ramón Oviero CAPÍTULO II PLEGARIAS Y ORACIONES POPULARES .............................................57 Costa Rica ............................................................................................59 Recopiladores Giselle Chang y Carmen Sojo El Salvador ...........................................................................................73 Recopiladora Maribell Henríquez Guatemala ............................................................................................91 Recopiladora Ida Bremme de Santos Honduras ...........................................................................................105 Índice • III Recopiladora Karen Daniela Ramos Nicaragua ...........................................................................................117 Recopilador Gustavo Adolfo Páez Panamá ..............................................................................................131 Recopiladores Carmen Ureña, Celso Murillo y Ramón Oviero CAPÍTULO III CALENDARIO DE CELEBRACIONES CENTROAMERICANAS ............139 CAPÍTULO IV RESEÑA DE FESTIVIDADES POPULARES ..........................................163 Costa Rica ..........................................................................................165 Giselle Chang, Luis Ferrero, Fernando González, El Salvador .........................................................................................199 Vilma Maribell Henríquez Guatemala ..........................................................................................221 Hugo Fidel Sacor Honduras ...........................................................................................249 Recopilación de: Lesbia Ramos Eguigurems, Karen Ramos Sánchez Nicaragua ...........................................................................................265 Milagros Palma Panamá ..............................................................................................281 Alcibiades Cortés, Olmedo Domingo, Lidia Franco, Zoila de Castillero, Ana Teresa Benjamín, Juan Domingo Lemos. CAPÍTULO V IV • Índice RELATOS SOBRE LA COSMOVISIÓN .................................................301 Costa Rica ..........................................................................................303 Marcos Guevara Berger El Salvador .........................................................................................323 Miguel Amaya A., Concepción Clará de Guevara Guatemala ..........................................................................................335 Hugo Fidel Sacor, Gaspar González Honduras ...........................................................................................341 Lázaro Flores, Rebeca Becerra, Oscar Rápalo Nicaragua ...........................................................................................359 Elba Sandoval Valdivia, Milagros Palma Panamá ..............................................................................................373 Carmen Ureña, Celso Murillo, Pastor Durán, Arnulfo Prestán GLOSARIOS .......................................................................................379 Costa Rica ..........................................................................................379 El Salvador .........................................................................................381 Guatemala ..........................................................................................383 Honduras ...........................................................................................384 Nicaragua ...........................................................................................388 Panamá ..............................................................................................389 BIBLIOGRAFÍAS .................................................................................391 Costa Rica ..........................................................................................391 El Salvador .........................................................................................393 Guatemala ..........................................................................................394 Honduras ...........................................................................................397 Nicaragua ...........................................................................................399 Panamá ..............................................................................................400 Índice • V PRESENTACIÓN Este es el segundo libro de la serie “Culturas Populares Centroamerica- nas”, producto de un importante acuerdo de los Ministros y Directores de Cultura, originado, básicamente, en las siguientes ideas: fortalecer las identidades nacionales, cultivar la identidad
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