NAHUA PRE-HISPANIC SONG. THE TEXTS AND THEIR “CON-TEXTS”

Abstract

An aboriginal singing of pre-Columbian inspiration, found in the Tlamatinime’s memory, was orally showed
through a great enunciation, in which it interrelated gestures, sounds, colours, rhythms, beat in dancings
ways, clothes with hieroglyphs and other suprasegmental components which formed, with the verbal register,
the text about this singing is showed up. It also could to be expressed in the bi-dimensionality of the image
through a semiotic iconographic plot that penetrated it. When the Spaniards compile the singing in the middle
of the XVI, this one is captivated in a graphical network totally different of that was used by native people: the
manuscript and the alphabetical writing.
Nagua singings will be considered in general terms in this article, in their pre-Hispanic contexts of enunciation
and in the alphabetical context of the Spanish manuscript in which they are contained and that saved these
singings of being forgotten.