Relatos y contra-relatos en torno al mito de Mari

Abstract

The Basque goddess Mari borns of an oral tradition story, as we have pointed more above up, they will do a strong emphasis in the importance of the language and everything what this bears. For it it is an important comprehension that any representation registers not only in the language, but politics and socially in the different realities that construct the environment and the networks that constitute the comprehension of an identity (Said 2004, 2007). We depart from a context in which it is about to create a differentiated identity. So that, to study the construction of the identity from a mythological perspective, can be a complex work, since there are myths constructed from the hermeneutics, the anthropology, etc… By this, the approach to the issue of collective identities and traditions of this nature it is always difficult, because it requires reflection on topics that could questioned the perception of our nearest identity. Therefore, this article will try to come closer to understanding the construction of identity and the different implications that this entails. Also started putting in question, a differential identity, as an identity immutable and unquestionable, since this would limit our perception of the object of study and that it could get to say (Johnson 2008). In tracing the various discourses that construct the representation of Mari, we detect that there aren't representations of this figuration as such, therefore we taken the characteristics that are attributed to Mari, and which have survived to this day. We see that the Catholic Church demonized the character of Mari by have a pagan character. The consequence of such fact, generated a importance of witchcraft in the performances of folk that still today, is still present in the imaginary popular basque. An example of this is the relation that is established by the covens, the bonfires of Saint Juan, or the festivity of Zurragamurdi, all of them linked straight with the figure of Mari. Only departing from this premise, we will be able to detect the Mari symptom in the Basque punk group Eskorbuto, as a result of an imaginary popular one concerning the witchcraft concept in the Basque Country. With the help of the against-history that Eskorbuto presents to us, we see like this musical group imagining one places in the place of the witches that in the first moment the hegemonic power placed Mari. Eskorbuto will define the identity concept leaving it back; they leave it back to a concept of traditionalist nation, to defend a Basque identity as nation anti-esencialista, in constant change process, spread and confronted to the values discriminators and coercive of the first one. Projects that in the beginning have a subversive character and are taken by the hegemonic power, turning into mythology strategies of the hegemonic power. We will find it in both cases: Eskorbuto and in Mari.