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Manniquen of a masked Cora "Judas" dancer at the Museo Nacional de la Máscara. The Cora religion is a syncretism between the pre-Conquest religion and Catholicism. The ancestral Cora religion has three principal divinities. The supreme god is the sun god, Tayau, "our father". He travels across the sky during the day, sitting down in his golden ...
Main communities where Cora is spoken in the Nayar municipality. Ethnologue distinguishes two main variants of Cora. One is called Cora del Nayar or Cora Meseño and is spoken mainly in and around the medium-altitude settlements of Mesa de Nayar and Conel Gonzales in the south of the el Nayar municipality of Nayarit, and has approximately 9,000 speakers (1993 census).
Vladimir Cora was born in San Diego el Naranjo in the municipality of Acaponeta, Nayarit. His father named him after Vladimir Lenin, and his last name is derived from that of the Cora people who are native to his home state. [1] [2] He played with lace, white paper and paintbrushes as a child, but did not discover art until he was a teenager. [3]
At the other end of the spectrum, the masking, wearing and destruction of a mask is part of Holy Week rituals among the Cora, Yaqui and Mayo. The Cora destroy their papier-mâché masks by immersing them in a local river while the Yaqui and Mayo burn them. In both cases, it is an act of purification. [13] [35] [36]
Pages in category "People from Nayarit" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. María Pilar Aquino; C.
Cora (hypermarket), a retail group of hypermarkets in Europe; Cora (instrument), an alternative spelling of the West African musical instrument Kora; Cora, a 1791 opera by Étienne Méhul, libretto by Valadier; Cora (restaurant), a Canadian chain of casual restaurants; Cora (rocket), a French rocket; Cora, a brig that was wrecked in 1821
Nayarit covers 27,815 square kilometers (10,739 sq mi), making it one of the smaller states in Mexico. [16] Nayarit is located between latitude lines 23°05' north and 20°36' south and longitude lines 103°43' east and 105°46' west. [17] Its terrain is broken up by the western ends of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains.
The Kora, Khora or Cora were one of the ten Indigenous tribes of the Great Andamanese people, originally living on the eastern part of North Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean. The tribe is now extinct, although some of the remaining Great Andamanese on Strait Island claim to have Kora ancestors.