麻豆传媒AV

Citation

Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz S (2025) El Padrenuestro y los rezos andinos en los siglos XVI y XVII: la comunicación con lo divino. In: El Padrenuestro. Una mirada etnolingüística sobre sus traducciones a algunas lenguas indígenas de Latinoamérica. Alejandra Regúnaga & Christian Tauchner (eds.). first ed. Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 55. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Publishing, pp. 91-131. https://www.nomos.de; https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748949046-91

Abstract
Through the study of selected discursive and semantic aspects of the Our Father prayer, translated into Quechua in 1584, I approach the communication with the divine in the Andes. By contextualising the Our Father in pre-Hispanic and colonial Andean prayers, we can observe differences in their discourse and lexico-semantic organisation. The Our Father uses few parallelisms and is written in prose, whilst the Andean prayers are organised in semantic pairs and show a poetic rhythm. The Our Father ‘adapts’ Quechua words to a new context. This led some indigenous specialists of the colonial period to conceive their own system of sin and pardon, thereby creating a reinterpretation of the Christian doctrine.

Keywords
Christian and Andean prayers, colonial Peru, Quechua, discourse and semantics, translation