ABSTRACT
Huichol cosmology, in genera! with the intellectual productions of other mesoamerican groups, has been presented as an anarchic hetrogeneity of deities and folk heros whose deeds are executed in an indeterminate and constantly changing landscape.
It is argued that sacred narratives, far from being the productions of caprice, structure the relations between divine personages and events by providing a classificatory matrix which partitions the universe into moral spaces. The value of an event or the significance of a deity is given by its spatial position.
Furthermore this scheme is extended to incorporate pre-conquest and post-conquest epochs into the same moral configurations and thereby provide a paradigm on which inter ethnic relations in the area are predicated.
The vectors of this order of orders provide the ligaments on which the structure of events is apprehended and the referents of memory are dependent.
