Ejes semántico-funcionales de los mitos de creación en las culturas andinas prehispánicas

Abstract

Peoples explain their origins and place in the university through myths. Mythical texts are usually fables stories, allegorical explications. Different creation myths and their variants may be explained through the functional-semantic axes that the stories fulfill. Such axes are usually joint, creation-destruction, prohibitiontransgression etc. They are binary oppositions that are semanticized and reveal not only the logic of the thinking of the peoples that created the myth, but also their ancestral fears and their relationship to transcendence.