Abstract
In 1704 and 1705, some 103 copies of the 260-day Zapotec ritual calendar and four collections of ritual songs were handed over to Bishop Fray Angel Maldonado by elected Zapotec town officials of the province of Villa Alta, Oaxaca. This article analyzes the multiple religious and social meanings of these calendars by focusing on two main issues: connections between social spaces, historicity, and cosmological beliefs within these indigenous communities, and the emergence of a novel clandestine ritual genre characterized by a hybrid discourse regarding religious practices, which allowed specialists to share their cosmological knowledge with a literate indigenous public.
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