Gabriela Badillo

Cora. La creación del mundo

Gabriela Badillo

Lacandón. El origen de los aluxes

Gabriela Badillo

Nights at the jungles are filled with sounds, songs and laughs from the aluxes, some creatures that escaped from heaven. They can't be exposed at light, so as soon as the sun hides, they insist on building pyramids trying to get closer to where they came from.

Cucapá. El origen de los montes

Gabriela Badillo

Ayapaneco. El viento

Gabriela Badillo

Manuel Segovia

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind.

Chuj. El origen de las minas de sal de San Mateo

Gabriela Badillo

Akateko. La aparición de san Miguel Arcángel

Enrique Sañudo, Gabriela Badillo

Chocholteco. La niña de la lanilla

Gabriela Badillo

Mayo. El origen del fuego

Gabriela Badillo

About the origin of fire They say many years ago every animal wanted fire, but it was on top of the highest mountain.So they suggested the frog went looking for it, he wouldn't get burn since he lived in water.It took the frog a while to get there, and when he finally grabbed a hot coal, the water on his mouth put the fire out.Then, the fox suggested the chicken should go with him so every time the fire was about to extinguish, the chicken would blow on it to rekindle the flame. They made it back but the coal fell on the tlacuache's tale, making him run scared around the mountain leaving traces of fire everywhere.Thanks to these animals we now have fire and the Tlacuache's tale looks the way we now know.That's how the Yoremes tell it.

Chinanteco. Jujmi La niña del Río

Gabriela Badillo

Oluteco. La Danza de la Malinche

Gabriela Badillo

Don Diósgoro Prisciliano Esteban

Sold by her step brothers, Malintzin serves as a translator for an spanish merchant. When visiting Tenochtitlan she is rescued by Moctezuma. The merchant, angry, charges the aztecs of robbery with Hernan Cortes, who invades the city under that excuse.

Cho'l. El origen de la vida

Gabriela Badillo

About earthquakes and the origin of life on Earth They say many years ago Ch'ujtiat, the Heaven's lord, created the Earth with 12 immortal men to carry it. And it is when they get tired that the Earth moves, provoking earthquakes. At the same time he created the first men, who were ungrateful, so Ch'ujtiat sent the flood and turned the survivors into monkeys, and the innocent children into starts.He then created our first parents, na'al, Ixic y Xun'Ok, who multiplied and populated the Earth.That's how life on Earth began.That's how the Ch’oles tell it.