El diluvio y otros relatos de la huasteca hidalguense

Resumen

The three stories included in this paper were recorded by the reseatther during the summer of 1978, in Chililico and Huejutla, both in the municipality of Huejutla de Reyes, Hidalgo. Vatiations originally found in the Nahuatl test —e.g. optional changes between the phonernes /t/ and /tl/— have been left unmodified. The first story, narrated by Ildefonso Maya Hernandez, deals with the origin of the Huasteca Nahua Indians and the great flood. The second story —"The Rablyit"— is a somewhat syncretic version of the first, mixing both Nahua and biblical features, and again using the rabbit and the great flood as a dominating event. The final story is a modified version of Cinderella, which could also be titled "Mary Ashes".