El ritual de la serpiente
by Aby Warburg
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Towards the end of his stay in the Kreuzlingen clinic, where he was admitted due to his recurrent nervous breakdowns, Aby Warburg decided to write a good-bye speech for the clinic’s patients and doctors. This speech tells of his revealing encounter in 1895 with the Pueblo Indians, describing their dances with live snakes, a magical ceremony that aimed to produce rain. But the ritual of the snake, extreme example of the Indian’s animistic worshipping, is merely the starting point for a show more reflection on the power of imagery and symbolism, which is necessarily tied to art. Al final de su estancia en la clínica de Kreuzlingen, a la que ingresó a causa de sus recurrentes crisis nerviosas, Aby Warburg decidió escribir un discurso de despedida dirigido a los propios internos y a los médicos de la clínica. Este discurso relata su revelador encuentro en 1895 con los indios pueblo, describiendo su danza con serpientes vivas, una ceremonia mágica que busca producir la lluvia. Pero el ritual de la serpiente, forma extrema del culto animista de los indios, es el punto de partida de una reflexión sobre el poder de la imagen y los símbolos, necesariamente ligada a su concepción del arte. show lessTags
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Art & Design, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History
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- 299.784 — Religion Other religions Shintoism/Taoism/Other Mythologies Of North American Origin Of Particular Peoples and Cultures Mesoamerican
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- E99 .P9 .W3718 — History of the United States America Indians of North America Indian tribes and cultures
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