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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).
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.
El Nayar is a municipality in the Mexican state of Nayarit, being the largest municipality in Nayarit. The population was 30,551 in 2005 in a total area of 5,100 km². The municipal seat of Jesús María had a population of 1,520 in 2005. El Nayar is the home of the Huichol, Cora, and the Tepehuán Indians.
There are still cases where dancers make their own masks, such as the Cora in Nayarit and the Mayo and Yaqui in Sinaloa and Sonora. These are not generally made of wood. [18] [28] In the Cora community, dancers are bound to make their own masks as part of the rituals for Holy Week from papier-mâché, painted white and bound with cloth. On Holy ...
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.
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]
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.