Pedro, Pedro, Petsintowian

Resumen

Valentin Peralta describes how this Nahuatl tale fromSan Jerónimo Amanalco, Tezcoco, Edo. de México. "Pedro, Pedro, Petsintowian",belongs to the yektlaˀtoli, or 'correct speech' register. Itreflects the relation between narrative components that draws on the existenceof a cosmos that is the result of the constant movement of creation anddestruction, that is, ruled by a cyclical law of death and rebirth, and ofconstant renovation. The story relates how a small child uses his babybrother's blood to paint a temple that he has built, and that his father thenleaves him alone in the forest where in order to survive he turns into a birdknown as "petsintowian".