Guatemala, Food, and Syncretism

Guatemala, Food, and Syncretism

Syncretism is a concept and a word of Greek origin built on the episode that led ancient Cretan cities, at that time in conflict, to unite. By extension, this concept was extended to the linking together at least two or more religions doctrines among themselves. Even if such confusion religions took the definition does not exclude the syncretism of mixing the foundation of many myths among themselves, their bases or their cultures philosophies (Stewart, 1999).

Latin America includes more than twenty-five countries with different histories, languages, cultures, and political realities. The collision of peoples and cultures ...