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Meaning of jiote




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

jiote
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It is one of the common names of a tree. Its scientific name is Bursera simaruba, of the family Burseraceae. In Colombia it is known as naked Indian or carate. It also receives the names mulato, jiote, jiñocuabo, chaká, encuero or musk. It has medicinal uses.

  




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Tree sacred to pre-Columbian peoples of origin nahuat, whose chipping of the crust during the second or third week of may warns the onset of the rainy season. With a high capacity for regeneration, for philosophy Nahuatl-pipil, the jiote is the highest symbol of Xipe Totec, our Lord the flaying, who, arrival time, loses all his skin, in a cycle of perpetual regeneration, with which the pre-Columbian nahua worldview pipil conceived this constant chapter in the life cycle of the universe, in which life is possible over and over again, and in which the Western conception of death as the end of all things is not possible.

  



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