De la experiencia del nacimiento del salvador a un acontecimiento ancestral afro: una lectura del relato de la comunidad de Mateo en clave liberadora

Abstract

The celebration of the birth of Jesus, both in Bethlehem and in Quinamayo, is a liberating event that unites and reconciles foreign pagan peoples from the East (wise men to Bethlehem and black slaves from Africa to America) with their foreign oppressors (Roman Empire – white European and Creole slaveholders) having as mediator, the only Judeo-Christian God. In addition, it unites the peoples who have been forced to live in the diaspora (Jews to Babylon and blacks to America) forcibly abandoning their original lands (Israel and Africa). This event (birth) manifests itself in a spiritual liberation that sometimes transcends the physical field, because: after the child received adoration from the wise men from the east, they flee from the Illegitimate King Herod, returning home by another path; the black slaves danced (the Juga) in adoration around the child, while they took advantage of the tumult to escape, fleeing from the white slave owner, in search of freedom.