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prisoners, and had appointed Juan Atonal judge.
Today in Zinacantan, during the Christmas pantomimes,
women's supposed magical power is flaunted by the Dames,
who attempt to defend their consorts from the Bull's murderous
charge by brazenly lifing their skirts. But the Bull, undaunted,
makes a mockery of their efforts by goring their husbands in a
vital place.
The association of licentious dances with heretical religions
Two men climbed up. They went to get some
fruit. The children stayed below. Yes!
The tree suddenly cracked. "What are you doing,
Xut? I don't want you to fell the tree!" said the ones
who had climbed the tree.
Well then, when the tree fell, Our Holy Father—
[Xut] turned into Our Holy Father—he felled the
tree. The ones who had climbed the tree turned into
pigs. After that he stuck tortillas on their faces, one
after the other. To this day pigs have them stuck on
here. They still say that [pigs] are Our Holy Father's
elder brothers. Yes!
That's how it is. It was the younger brother who
made the tortillas and stuck the tortillas on their
faces, one after the other. That's how pigs were
born.
But they were Our Holy Father's elder brothers,
they say, you see. But Our Holy Father was the
younger brother. But Our Holy Father won out to
this day, it seems. That's how it was, of course!
That's the way it was.
See also T13, T162, and their notes.
Well, do you want to hear about when the king
appeared, the Indian king? Me, I heard about it. My
father told me. My grandmother told me about when
the Indian king appeared here at Our Holy Mother,
Muxul Vitz. A bo—y would bar the way there. He
was always ly—ing there on his stomach, every day,
every single day. He would stop the people going to
and from San Cristobal, on the path. "Give me one
of your torti—lias!" he said. "Give me one of your
o—ranges!" he said.
"See here, what do you do, loafer? Work! You
have hands, too! I buy fruit to eat because I work,
because I'm a man," said the travellers to San Cristobal.
Whoever were his friends, then, "Well, do you
want a tortilla?" said the people, those people [who
were his friends].
XUN VASKIS 105
The Three Suns
T155
The King and the Ring
T113
persists today in wild stories about the rites that are celebrated
by Protestant missionaries in Ixtapa.
Xun's brief digression about the Bird refers to the activities in
1911 of Jacinto Perez, nicknamed "Pajaro." Although this Chamulan
general was of average height, time has apparently made
the Bird walk taller (Moscoso Pastrana, pers. comm.). See also
T22, T65, T66, T116, T153, T154, and their notes.
7Imuy 7a li cha7-vo7 vinike bu ssa7ik tal Io7bol, te
kom i 7a li k'oxetik ta 7olon 7une. Ji7!
Bweno, 7a li stotzlij xa li te7e. "K'u me chapas,
Xut, mu me jk'an xalomes i te7e," xi li much'u
muyem ta te7 7une.
Bweno pwes, k'alal lorn i te7 7une, 7a li
jch'ul-tottik 7une jch'ul-tottik xa pas ja7 7islomes i
te7e, 7a li much'u muyem ta te7 7une chitom xa spas
7un, laj snap'annap'anbe memela tzat 7un, te nap'al xi
toe k'al tana 7oy chitom 7un, sbankil jch'ul-tottik xiik
to. Ji7!
Ja7 yech, 7a li 7itz'inal 7une ja7 la smeltzan
memela snap'annap'anbe ta ssat i 7a li 7a li vaj 7une
yech'o 7ayan i 7a li chitom 7une.
Bu, ti sbankil jch'ul-tottik xiik chava7i 7une, yan i
jch'ul-tottik 7une ja7 7itz'inal pero si mas 7ikaji k'al
tana li jch'ul-tottik ya7el 7une, ja7 yech a7a, ja7
yech.
Bweno, mi chak'an chava7i, 7a ti k'al 7ayan ti reye
7intyo reye, 7a li vo7one 7ika7i, liyalbe jtot liyalbe
jmuk'ta me7 k'al 7ayan ti 7intyo reye Ii7 ta
jch'ul-me7tik Muxul Vitze, te ta smak jun be jun
kre—m te xpate—t ta j-mek skotol k'ak'al, skotol
k'ak'al ta j-mek, 7a li jjobelajele che7e, ta smak ta be,
"7Ak'bon junuk 7avo—t!" xi. "7Ak'bon j-p'ejuk
7anaranjaaa!" xi.
"K'e k'u xana7 jaragan, 7abtejan, 7o 7ak'ob 7uk, ta
jman Io7bol jlo7 yu7un chi7abtej yu7un vinikon," xi
li jjobelajele. Much'u 7amigo che7e, "Bweno, mi
chave7 junuk vaj?" xi li krixchano, much'u
krixchanoe.