Los teenek antiguos tenían un numeroso y complejo panteón. Podían aplicar a sus deidades nombres genéricos o nombres específicos. Algunas de estas deidades recibían múltiples denominaciones. En este artículo se analiza un conjunto de nombres relativamente reducido, los de la deidad del maíz (Dhipaak) y los de su parentela -su hermana gemela, sus madres, sus padres, su único abuelo (Muxi', la deidad suprema), los tres hijos de su abuelo, sus abuelas y la "hija" de una de sus abuelas-, así como los de los espacios en los que cada uno de estos personajes reside o actua. La mayoría de los datos fueron obtenidos de la tradición oral. El parentesco entre los teenek y los otros grupos mayas se manifiesta parcialmente en los nombresde algunos personajes de su mitología, por ejemplo Ajaatik, Chook, Dhipaak, Pe'no, lo cual contribuye a confirmar que todos los actuales grupos de filiación mayanse formaron antiguamente una unidad lingüística y cultural.
This research is framed as a part of the field of Spanish as a Foreign Language Studies (ELE) and focuses on fostering intercultural skills of host families that receive international students from the University of Applied and Environmental Sciences (UDCA). The objective of this paper is to propose material that provides a tool for host families, a hosting protocol, that promotes intercultural skills and serves as an intercultural guide. For this, it is intended to discover the cultural shocks that occur in the middle of the process of staying in the foster home; thus, to promote the usage of intercultural mediation strategies that allow a better coexistence between the hosts and guests. This project is labeled as qualitative research which belongs to the field of Applied Linguistics since a material is created to treat, understand and mediate cultural shocks. Also, it provides a series of stages to carry out a hosting process. The research instruments used along this paper are surveys and interviews. Initially, a survey is made to determine if there are cultural clashes between students and hosts. As a result of the survey, it is found that these clashes between the two parties do indeed occur and are probably the most recurrent. From this point, an interview is carried out to identify and classify the types of cultural shocks. Subsequently, once the information is obtained, a self-managed didactic material is designed that seeks to solve the needs found in the interview. The design of the material has as theoretical references the proposal of Jolly Bolitho in his route of creation of materials (quoted in Tomlinson, 2011).
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