3/9/2024 0 Comments Leyenda del colibrí mayaWhen they blew on the stone to get rid of the dust caused by their carving, they blew so hard that it flew into the sky. After a few days, the stone arrow was ready. This arrow was designed to represent a journey. They took a jade stone and began to carve in it an arrow. Fortunately, as gods, they were creators of the impossible.įor this new creation, the Mayan gods decided to create their messenger with something special. Without the materials to create their new messenger, they had to get creative. However, when the gods realized their mistake, they also discovered they had run out of mud and maize (corn). They had forgotten to provide a messenger to transport their thoughts and desires from one place to another. When they thought they had completed the job (again reinforcing the fallibility of Mayan gods), they realized they had failed to do something very significant. The legend of the Mayan hummingbird tell us that the gods created all animals and gave each one a specific job to do on earth. This leads us to the story of the Mayan hummingbird legend and its meaning. Despite being one of the smallest birds in the world, they were seeped in mythology. We do know that many animals were seen as messengers of the gods and the hummingbird was one of the most treasured. Unfortunately, much of literature and, therefore, understanding of the Maya peoples was destroyed when the Spanish came to colonize Mesoamerica.įortunately, some information has survived. There were around 250 gods which the Maya worshipped. Many struggled just as their human counterparts struggled. Similar to the gods of the Greco-Roman world, these gods were not always infallible. The gods of the Mayan pantheon were involved in all aspects of their lives. Some were creators who were believed to have molded the Maya out of maize. According to their collective beliefs, they had many different gods who all represent different aspects of their life. Not easy, it is painful and nothing is guaranteed, but it’s time to get up like a herd, a coalition of circus figures and relearn how to fight … Texto: María Teresa Garzón Martínez.The Maya peoples had a culture steeped in mysticism, creating legends and mythology about everything in this life and the possibilities of beyond. At what point do we begin to fight for our lives when we give life? And, of course, brave women appear who, drop by drop, carry water in their beaks. Ours is life, as simple as that, not survival: living above life. “We were not born to survive,” Audre Lorde, the black poet, told us in his ear. It burns because they have set it on fire in an attempt to end all possibility of life, of believing, of breathing, of playing, of pleasure. We do not know how we managed to get up again, open our wings once more, receiving the sun on the face and the moon in the belly. We lost a couple of feathers, a couple of loves and the other time some of us scraped a leg. Planning in the air is not our greatest quality. When we fly with a drop in our beaks we sometimes water and sometimes we crash. Only one drop I can carry in my beak, but I’m doing my thing.” To which the hummingbird declares: “It’s true. Then, the unbelieving deer says: “You can not put out the fire: your beak is too small and you cannot get enough water”. A deer stops and asks: “What are you doing? You go towards the flames.”Īnd the hummingbird replies: “Yes, there is a lake”. The animals run desperate to escape the flames, but a hummingbird flies in the opposite direction. It’s a story that we rewrite or, better said, plagiarize, like almost everything. The hummingbird is a birdie native to the Abya Yala, the name given by the indigenous Kuna to America, and is present in images, myths, legends and oral narratives of many peoples, from the Rio Grande to Ushuaia.Ĭomrade Subcomandante Marcos showed us a story about a hummingbird.
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