AZ: (PG13) San Juan Teperico

[Richard Haly]

Greetings All:

Note my little PG13 rating that I've given this topic so that those offended
by the study of certain cultural practices (which is, by the way, different
from performing the cultural practices themselves) can brace themselves with
whatever intellectual rigor (rigor mortis?) they prefer. Or as Samuel
Beckett has it "Who knows what the ostrich sees with his head in the sand?"


So: In the Sierra Norte de Puebla there is an image in a church of San Juan
Teperico. This particular San Juan whose "last name" is appropriately a
hybrid of Nahuatl (tepetl/mountain) and Spanish (rico/rich) is the focus of
prayers for money. San Juan Teperico lives in the lower world - Talocan -
and that's about all I know. I should find out when his fiesta is
celebrated. That would be telling...

Does anyone on the list know more? Inemilis? His lifestory? or cognate
images in other places/cultures?

Thanks,

Richard Haly