POST4 Zapotec Religion
The Zapotec people are a group of indigenous people that mainly live in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Most are subsistence agriculturalists that grow maize. A few do cultivate coffee beans as cash crops as well as a kind of sugarcane they call panela. Today, we are looking over the Zapotec's mythology(773), various sacred objects and places (778), and their spirits and gods (776). In modern times, the Zapotec people follow catholicism, due to Spanish colonization of Mexico during the 1500s. In catholicism, the Zapotec believe Jesus Christ is their one and only god. However, what makes Zapotec catholicism unique to them is their worship of saints, some being recognized saints such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, also known as the Virgin Mary. The Zapotec also worship local saints such as Santa Muerte, the saint of death and the afterlife. The Zapotec form groups devoted to the worship of one saint, these are called cofradÃas. A...