Retumba la Tierra. Ténabarim, koyolim y senaaso. Mitología amerindia de los instrumentos musicales del Pajko’ola

Abstract

During his dance, the Pajko'ola performs various percussion instruments by shaking (ténabarim, koyolim and senaaso). The analysis of each one cannot be separated from the mythology that underlies the character, associated with the Earth and telluric movements. Here the existence of a complex related to predominantly feminine entities and "wild beasts" -ancient women or ogres- of the "Old Men of the Dance" type and to nocturnal lepidoptera is proposed. The review of this approach is not exhaustive, but it allows us to locate aspects of mythology of Yuto-Nahuas groups and other linguistic affiliations, present and past, from Mexico and beyond. From the mythology of "noise" it is possible to locate the Pajko'ola and its musical instruments as belonging to the domain of the darkness.