{"id":5063197,"date":"2024-11-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calatinonews.com\/?p=5063197"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:00:00","slug":"tonantzin-guadalupe-film-explores-origins-of-mexicos-patroness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/caln\/2024\/11\/13\/tonantzin-guadalupe-film-explores-origins-of-mexicos-patroness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tonantzin Guadalupe\u2019 Film Explores Origins of Mexico’s Patroness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe mother of Guadalupe has always existed in my family, since my grandparents, since my ancestors,\u201d one man told the documentary filmmakers of \u201cTonantzin Guadalupe<\/a>\u201d standing outside his chicken rotisserie business in Mexico City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always been protected by her,\u201d he said with a smile, looking over at the brown-skinned statue he venerates. \u201cThat\u2019s why we have her with her little lights, with her flowers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jes\u00fas Manuel Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s latest film, \u201cTonantzin Guadalupe<\/a>,\u201d demystifies the origin story of the adored Virgin of Guadalupe<\/a> through a historical lens that seeks to illustrate how \u201cthe power of stories\u201d led to the creation of Mexico as a nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 20 million people visit the patroness at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/a> in Mexico City every year, but not many know its complex origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrative that has dominated popular culture has been of Juan Diego and his rose-filled tilma<\/a>, which revealed the miraculous image of the virgin in 1531. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Yohualli L\u00f3pez, a Nahua translator and ritual dancer featured in the film, said Tonantzin was the mother earth goddess indigenous communities worshiped at Tepeyac Hill before the Virgin of Guadalupe, widely recognized today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story of Juan Diego and the Virgin of Guadalupe was first documented in 1556 in the \u201cNican Mopohua<\/a>,\u201d a text originally written in Nahua that was one of the many texts used as Christian theater by Spaniards to evangelize communities throughout the 16th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over 20 million people visit the patroness at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City every year. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo:<\/strong> David Molina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Traditional <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Mixe indigenous community in Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, were never subdued militarily by the Spaniards. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo:<\/strong> David Molina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe \u2018Nican Mopohua\u2019 is not endorsed by us indigenous people,\u201d L\u00f3pez said. \u201cThe \u2018Nican Mopohua\u2019 is held by the religious institution that was implanted here in the 16th century and sustained by the highest ranks of power since the 16th century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it wasn\u2019t until 1649, 118 years after<\/em> the 1531 Virgin of Guadalupe apparitions, that the New Spain church started \u201cpushing this story deliberately\u201d onto its population, Mu\u00f1oz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was because New Spain wanted to show they were not \u201ca second-rate territory in relation to Spain. They were as important as Spain, so much so that the mother of God had appeared here,\u201d Mu\u00f1oz explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were many versions of the virgin in Spain at that point including La Virgen De Extremadura<\/em><\/a> and La Virgen de los Remedios<\/em><\/a>, according to historians.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut it started gaining traction as the local virgin and as a source of local or national pride,\u201d because it had \u201ca lot of elements of indigenous cultures [like] the roses, the birds,\u201d Mu\u00f1oz said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Rodrigo Mart\u00ednez Baracs, a historian interviewed in the film, said the fusion of New Spanish and indigenous culture as depicted through the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe “strengthened the feeling of Mexican identity,” among the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt became the source of nationalism in Mexico, so much so that the first flag of Mexico is the Virgin of Guadalupe,\u201d Mu\u00f1oz explained, referencing the 1810 banner used during the war of independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Traditional <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Statues of the Virgin Guadalupe brought to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Dec. 12, a time of year when millions of people venerate the patroness. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo:<\/strong> David Molina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mu\u00f1oz said he remembers being shocked when he read about La Virgen De Extremadura<\/em> for the first time over 25 years ago instead of the Guadalupe he grew up with living in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought our Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe was the first and the only,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film director has since left his religious roots, but he said he made it a priority in his film to \u201crespect the faith\u201d of viewers while presenting them with information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though I am not religious, I am agnostic. It doesn\u2019t mean that the people who believe in the Virgin and have faith in Christianity aren\u2019t valid,\u201d  Mu\u00f1oz said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of his artistic vision, Mu\u00f1oz said he wants people to reflect on the distinction between histories and stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStories are made to convince you of a message,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they are so powerful that they can create a reality that ends up being as true as the truth, like having faith, like believing in the Virgin of Guadalupe, like believing that I am Mexican.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch \u2018Tonantzin Guadalupe\u2019 at these locations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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