Princess Dácil's fountain

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Princess Dácil's fountain

The fountain of Princess Dácil ( Fuente de la Princesa Dácil ) has been in a roundabout on the TF 211 road at the entrance to the city of La Orotava ( Tenerife ) since 2003 . The monument was erected in honor of the culture of the pre-Hispanic citizenship and the respect for women. It was created by the La Orotava-based artists Ezequiel de León Cruz, Cristo Quintero and Domingo González Expósito.

The historian Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos called the fountain as one of the bizarre cases of monuments that show absolute contempt for history. The work of art shows an irreconcilable mess of symbolic elements.

The main element is a 3.5 m high bronze sculpture of a female figure, which is supposed to represent the legendary Princesa Dácil , daughter of Menceys of Taoro. She wears a kind of tiara and is dressed in a smooth top with attached sleeves and a pointed skirt. In her left hand she holds a vessel called "gánigo" in the Canary Islands.

Decoration with pintaderas and copies of the Ídolo de Chil

The figure stands on a plinth adorned with pintaderas from Gran Canaria that a guanchin from Tenerife could never have seen. On the widening in the lower part of the base, instead of the usual frogs, ducks or dolphins, four copies of the Ídolo de Chil are attached, which the fictional Dácil could not have known either. The Ídolo copies spew water through an opening in the head, which is not present in the original, into a basin that is also decorated with pintaderas.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La escultura de la princesa Dácil rendirá homenaje al legado prehispánica . In: El Día . June 18, 2003 (Spanish, [1] [accessed October 14, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos: El uso de lo indígena y de iconos arqueológicos como referentes de identidad y prestigio en la sociedad canaria actual . In: Antonio Béthencourt Massieu (ed.): Lecturas de historia de Canarias . Acadiemia canaria de la historia, o.O. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 2006, ISBN 978-84-612-3212-3 , pp. 83 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ gánigo. In: Diccionario. Academia Canaria de La Lengua, 2005, accessed November 10, 2017 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos: El uso de lo indígena y de iconos arqueológicos como referentes de identidad y prestigio en la sociedad canaria actual . In: Antonio Béthencourt Massieu (ed.): Lecturas de historia de Canarias . Acadiemia canaria de la historia, o.O. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 2006, ISBN 978-84-612-3212-3 , pp. 83 (Spanish).

literature

Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos: El uso de lo indígena y de iconos arqueológicos como referentes de identidad y prestigio en la sociedad canaria actual . In: Antonio Béthencourt Massieu (ed.): Lecturas de historia de Canarias . Acadiemia canaria de la historia, o.O. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 2006, ISBN 978-84-612-3212-3 (Spanish).

Coordinates: 28 ° 23 ′ 51.8 ″  N , 16 ° 31 ′ 5 ″  W.