Cuando la Historia se Disfraza: Mito, Rito e Inversión Simbólica en la Narración de Lucas Alamán

This article proposes a critical reading of Lucas Alamán’s account of the taking of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas as a scene of symbolic inversion that destabilizes the regime of legibility sustaining the colonial order. Beyond its testimonial value, the text preserves an image in which the visible signs of hierarchy—clothing, ornaments, and emblems of authority—change bodies, producing a momentary suspension of the system of social recognition and of the ritual time that guaranteed its continuity. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s notion of history as an operation of stabilization and Giorgio Agamben’s distinction between rite, play, and profanation, the article interprets the insurgency as a semiotic liberation and as a temporal interval that suspends, without abolishing, the calendar of power. Historiography thus appears not as transparent access to the past, but as a practice that transforms the excess of the event into pedagogical narrative. Within this framework, orthodox historical teaching is analyzed as a ritual repetition that converts interruption into stabilized myth. The methodological incorporation of contemporary audiovisual representations makes it possible to observe the cultural re-ritualization of the insurgent event. The article concludes that the critical task of historiography is not to close this instability, but to render visible the operation that produces and manages it.