LA PARCA: PERSONIFICACIÓN MACABRA DE LA MUERTE EN CARACAS A MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XVIII

Abstract

 In Caracas, in the middle of the 18th, several authors wrote poems and funerals sermons where The Parca, a macabre personification of death, appears as a recurrent metaphoric resource. This personification was related with a set of attitudes that expressed fear, but also rejection and repudiation toward the “glommy feeling” with which death was perceived in some Hispano-American contexts of the baroque. With an anthropological interest to study societies in the past, this article aims to analyze the links between the traits with the Parca was represented and the cultural senses about death and dying that circulated in Caracas.