Notre Dame de Guadeloupe, expression du processus de métissage au Mexique

Abstract

Apparitions of the Virgin of Guadeloupe in Mexico arose in the course of the seventeenth century, during the transition period in the economic and social order induced by Spanish cólonization. This cult of the Virgin Mary can be viewed as a hybrid indigenous product, the fruit of a syncretism between the Virgin introduced by the colonized and the Goddess Tanatzin, the old goddess of life.