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"Oh, could it be the Virgin?" asked the compadre.<br />
"Huh, how can you think it's the Virgin? If it's a<br />
lady who wants to fluff wool, to spin, to weave here<br />
in our homes are we going to turn her down? We'll<br />
be satisfied if she covers us. We'll be satisfied if she<br />
clothes us. She'll make our shirts and our neckerchiefs.<br />
<strong>Lo</strong>rd, how can we refuse [to let] that poor<br />
lady live here? It's worth it to build her a little<br />
gabled house, however small," they said.<br />
They built a gabled house for her. They gathered<br />
together. "What else can we do?"<br />
But you see the house was built right away in the<br />
place where she said she wanted her house. The<br />
house was built right away.<br />
Who knows how many years afterwards, the<br />
ground split open. There was a little stream that<br />
descended from the foot of the cliff by the door of<br />
the Virgin's house. The ground split open and now a<br />
river appeared.<br />
But you see, the Virgin was leaning against the<br />
avocado tree. Her house was completely floo—ded<br />
with water.<br />
That's where 7Unen 7Uk'um [Little River] is now.<br />
That's what they call it now. A river passes by the<br />
entrance to the Virgin's house now, it seems. <strong>Lo</strong>ng<br />
ago when she arrived it wasn't there. But now the<br />
town is big. As for the church, it's a big church now.<br />
<strong>Lo</strong>ng ago it was that little gabled house they made<br />
for her. The house was built. The church was<br />
rebuilt. Now it's a church, because it was seen that<br />
the ground split open, water came out, a river. The<br />
Virgin landed leaning against the foot of the avocado<br />
tree. But when she talked, you don't think she<br />
was a saint? She was a person. The boy she spoke to<br />
didn't see where she went.<br />
It became apparent that maybe she was the Virgin<br />
since she seemed to disappear there.<br />
Then she came and sat down again. But she left<br />
her seat, it seems. She went to sit on the altar, it<br />
seems. Finally she was on the altar.<br />
She landed, leaning against the avocado tree. The<br />
Virgin leapt out when her house was flooded, it<br />
seems. Now there is another sluice that was made.<br />
The former sluice was a big sluice. It used to be on<br />
the other side of the river, because I saw it myself. It<br />
wasn't anybody else who saw it. The trunk used to<br />
be a good meter in length. But the well for the water<br />
was maybe ten or fifteen meters deep, where the salt<br />
used to come out, long ago. I was little. I was maybe<br />
eight years old when I arrived there beneath the feet<br />
of the Virgin.<br />
The sluice was moved to the other side [of the<br />
river]. The new sluice was made on this side. That's<br />
where the salt water came out. It dried up on the far<br />
TONIK NIBAK 199<br />
"7Iij, ma no 7ox me jch'ul-me7tikuk 7un?" xi la ti<br />
kumpareile.<br />
"7Ey, buy, mi7n jch'ul-me7tik 7ana7ojik, 7a ti mi<br />
jmeme7tik bu tzk'an chich' sijel chich' najel, chich'<br />
jolob H7 ta jnatik, mi ta to jp'ajtik 7un bi, bal<br />
xismakotik, bal xispixotik smeltzan jk'u7 jpok'tik<br />
kere, mi ta to jp'ajtik nakluk taj prove jmeme7tike,<br />
bal k'uk smuk'ul yunen vakax na jmeltzanbetik," xiik<br />
la 7un.<br />
Va7i 7un, smeltzanbeik la ti svakax na 7une, stzob<br />
la sbaik. "Yiyil, kere!"<br />
Bu la xavil 7un, ti buy ti yal ti tzk'an ti sna 7une,<br />
meltzaj la ta 7ora ti na 7une, pas la ta 7ora ti na 7une.<br />
Bu, jna7tik to ta sjayibal jabil 7une, ja7 7a li 7ituch'<br />
tal li balamil, 7oy te 7unen 7uk'um xi xyal tal ta yibel<br />
ch'en 7un, yo7 sti7 sna li jch'ul-me7tik 7une, 7ituch'<br />
tal ti balamil 7une, 7uk'um xa lok' tal 7un.<br />
Buy 7un, 7a li jch'ul-me7tik 7une, kikil xa ta yolon<br />
7on 7un, 7ino—j xa ta j-mek ta vo7 skotol ti sna 7une.<br />
Va7i 7un, ja7 lavi buy 7oy xa te "7Unen 7Uk'um"<br />
ya7el sbi lavi 7une, 7oy xa x7ech' 7uk'um ta ti7 ta sti7<br />
sna li jch'ul-me7tik ya7ele, 7a ti vo7ne k'al 7ik'ote,<br />
ch'abal to 7ox, yan Ie7e jamal lum xa li 7eklixa 7une,<br />
muk' xa li 7eklixa, ti vo7ne, ja7 taj 7unen vakax na<br />
7ismeltzanbeik, meltzaj ti na 7une, cha7-meltzaj ti<br />
7eklixa xa lavie 7eklixa xa tana Ie7 7une, k'u ti yu7un<br />
ja7 ti 7ile ti yu7un 7ituch' tal li balamile, 7ilok' vo7 li<br />
7uk'ume, jch'ul-me7tike kikil to k'ot ta yibel 7a li,<br />
yibel 7on, pero yu7 van jch'ul-me7tik ti k'alal<br />
7ik'opoje, 7a li krixchano la, ja7 la ti muk' la xil bu<br />
bat ti krem ti sk'opon 7une.<br />
Va7i 7un, xvinaj 7o 7o no nan ti jch'ul-me7tik<br />
7une, k'u ti te ya7el 7ich'ay 7un.<br />
7Ora, tal chotluk noxtok 7une, k'usi xi lok' ya7el<br />
H7 ta xchotleb ya7el 7une, te bat 7a li chotol ta 7altal<br />
ya7el 7une, lajeltza ti 7altal 7une.<br />
Va7i, ta 7on xa kikil 7ik'ot, 7ip'it lok'el tal<br />
jch'ul-me7tik ti k'al 7inoj i sna ya7el 7une, 7a lavi<br />
7une, meltzajem xa jun xa li jom lavi a7a, 7a ti vo7ne<br />
jome, 7o to 7ox jun muk'ta jom, j-jech 7uk'um to 7ox<br />
yu7un 7ikil jtuk bi 7a, mu7nuk 7o buch'u 7iyil, lek to<br />
7ox nan jun metro snatil li ste7ele, pero 7a ti xch'enal<br />
ti vo7e, 7oy nan lajuneb vo7-lajunebuk metro snatil ti<br />
7atz'am to 7ox chlok' ti vo7ne, bik'iton to 7ox 7un,<br />
lek to 7ox 7un, lek to 7ox nan vaxakib jjabilal te<br />
chik'ot te ta yolon yok ti jch'ul-me7tik 7une.<br />
Va7i 7un, 7a li 7ijelav i jom ya7el 7imeltzaj i 7ach'<br />
jom xi ta j-jot 7une, yu7un te la lok' taj ya71el<br />
7atz'am 7une, ja7 7ul 7i xi ta j-jech 7uk'um, ja7 jelav
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