CORA ARE AN INDIGENOUS ETHNIC GROUP IN WEST CENTRAL MEXICO IN JALISCO AND NAYARIT. ABOUT 24,000 PEOPLE SPEAK CORA. THEY CULTIVATE MAIZE, BEANS AND AMARANTH AND RAISE CATTLE.
THEY HAVE A RUGGED MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. IN THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY THEY WERE AN ANOMOLY AND NEVER PERMITTED CATHOLICS TO LIVE WITH THEM. IN 1722 THE SPANISH RETURNED AND THE CORA YIELDED. MANY BECAME CHRISTIAN AND PRACTICED THEIR RELIGION.
THEIR TRADITIONAL RELIGION IS WITH THREE PRINCIPAL DIVINITIES: THE SUN GOD, TAYAU, AND OUR FATHER. CLOUDS ARE BELIEVED TO BE SMOKE FROM HIS PIPE. THE PRIESTS OF TAYAU WERE THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY OF CORA VILLAGES. HIS WIFE WAS THE UNDERWORLD GODDESS OF ASSOCIATION WITH MOON AND TRAIN. HER SON IS ASSOCIATED WITH MOON AND RAIN. HER SON IS ASSOCIATED WITH JESUS, QUETZALCOATL, A FEATHERED SERPENT. HE IS WORSHIPPED. THEY SPEAK UTO-AZTECAN LANGUAGE OF CENTRAL MEXICO.
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