MESO AMERICA TAMALES

Tamale comes from the Nahuatl word tamalli, and originated in Mesoamerica as early as 8000 to 5000 BC. The Olmec, Toltec, Aztec and Maya all made tamales, they were sacred and a large part of rituals and festivals. There are different stories of the origin of the tamal, particularly because the Europeans who chronicled the conquest wrote very different accounts, which have to be taken

Sociologist Beatriz Ramírez Woolrich, who works on the Seminario de Antropología de la alimentación with the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), is an expert on the history of the tamal in the region. She relates that there are more than 500 kinds of tamales in Mexico, with over 4,000 distinct preparations.

Other Indigenous communities have in the region have their names for it, the Totonac it is wati, for the Purepecha Corundas, proviene del purépecha “kúrhaunda”

otros pueblos originarios tienen denominaciones particulares, como wati (totonaca), corunda y uchepo (purepecha), miiky (mixe), pictes y shascul (maya).

dependiendo de las tradiciones y usos familiares. https://www.milenio.com/estilo/gastronomia/tamales-origen-e-historia-en-mexico

El nombre del alimento proviene del vocablo náhuatl tamalli, que significa envuelto; sin embargo,