Construct of meanings of the pandemic by the pathogenic of Sars-CoV2 from the worldview of the tseltales of Ts’unun municipalyti of Oxchuc, Chiapas.
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Opening eyes to repentance, Suffering for sins, Wrath of God, Sickness of the rich, Sickness of the worldAbstract
Humans are intelligent beings, designed to know, understand and comprehend natural phenomena in the world, an origin of the monkey in Charles Darwin's theory or a creation of God who lived in paradise from a religious and biblical perspective; however, despite being considered one of the beings with a higher IQ than other living beings, the truth is that on many occasions it is the creator of conflicts, problems between society or in the entire world.
Although the pandemic caused by the Sars-Cov2 pathogen was an unexplained phenomenon throughout the world during the first days, this virus gave rise to different meanings from an Asian-type disease to the ideology of the end of the world; its arrival in large cities caused quarantine, which consisted of staying locked up for 40 days, a reason that unleashed different psychological, emotional, cultural and social problems.
In the native communities, the understanding of this phenomenon was linked to the different elements of culture, such as language, culture, worldview and the way of life of the inhabitants. This is why, when faced with an unknown situation, meanings are created from the phenomenon, its manner of attack, the conversion between the scientific and the post-apocalyptic, important meanings constructed from the experience of the Covid-19 phenomenon.
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