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They gave him another one. "But how come he<br />
never gets drunk?"<br />
That Thunderbolt thought to himself—"But that's<br />
all. It looks as if I'll collapse," he said.<br />
After he drank like that, then he toppled over. He<br />
just toppled over there where he was sitting in the<br />
jail.<br />
Those soldiers came to look at him, since he had<br />
already toppled over. There was a hole dug way<br />
down where he had been sitting. When he drank the<br />
cane liquor [it went] into the ground. It kept being<br />
replaced and then running through. He drank and [it<br />
went] into the ground. It was pouring through. He<br />
pissed down [into the hole]. "Well, look here, then,<br />
look what kind of trick this Indian was pulling! It<br />
isn't as if it stayed in his belly—it went into the<br />
ground. <strong>Lo</strong>ok how the floor has been dug down<br />
into!" said those soldiers. "Well, but no, it makes no<br />
difference now, because he has gotten drunk now,<br />
because he has collapsed, because we've won now,<br />
of course! Because this one will stay for good,<br />
because we'll cut off his balls now," they said. It<br />
looked as if he hadn't heard since he had collapsed<br />
on the ground.<br />
Then they went to bring a pocketknife. When<br />
those balls of his were gra—bbed, then he felt it very<br />
well. Both of those balls of his were gra—bbed. That<br />
pocketknife was put against them. Those soldiers<br />
were squatting there. When he was lying on his side<br />
and had his balls grabbed, then he farted. That ass of<br />
his suddenly let a fart, but they landed sitting fa—r<br />
off! Those castrators were finished. That Thunderbolt<br />
was suddenly cracking. Then those farts of his<br />
came out. He sma—shed that whole jail. Then<br />
Whirlwind came. He smashed the whole barracks.<br />
Whirlwind picked up all the guns. The [soldiers]<br />
landed far off, face up. He sma—shed, he scattered<br />
all the houses.<br />
Then they simply all collapsed. All the soldiers<br />
were finished.<br />
Then our countrymen were left free.<br />
Now nothing happened to our countrymen. They<br />
came out. They came back together.<br />
That's how the affair ended. Guatemala gave up,<br />
because long ago they used to be so evil that they<br />
turned us into oil. They fattened us. They used to<br />
castrate [us] long ago.<br />
Now, today, they don't do anything to us. They<br />
don't do anything anymore to a person who arrives<br />
there, because long ago so many of our countrymen<br />
were lost, long ago. That's why they decided to do<br />
what they did, since there used to be mighty elders<br />
long ago. That's how they defended us long ago.<br />
That's why some say to this day that Zinacantan is<br />
ROMIN TERATOL<br />
Bweno, yak'beik la 7otro j-p'ej. "Pero k'u cha7al ti<br />
yu7n mu xyakub ta j-meke?"<br />
Bweno, 7isnop xa ta sjol taj chauk 7une -- "Pero te<br />
nox k'alal chilom yilel," xi la 7un.<br />
Bweno, laj yuch' taj x7elan 7une ja7 7o la butk'ij<br />
7un, te nox 7ibutk'ij taj bu chotol ta nail chukel 7une.<br />
Bweno, tal sk'elel yu7un taj solteroetik 7une ti<br />
butk'ij xa 7une, yu7n la xch'ojoj yalel taj ch'en yo7<br />
bu chotol 7une, k'alal chuch' i poxe k'al yut balamil,<br />
toj k'ex jelavel, chuch' 7i k'al yut balamil xch'olet<br />
jelavel ta ta sk'abta yalel. "Bweno, k'el avi che7e k'e<br />
x7elan smanya li jun 7intyo H7e mu mu7nuk te<br />
chkom chch'ut yu7n k'alal lum chbat k'e x7elan<br />
xch'ojoj li balamile!" xiik la taj solteroetik 7une.<br />
"Bweno, pero mo7oj mu k'usi 7a lavie yu7n xa<br />
yakub yu7n xa lorn yu7n xa chkuch ku7untik Ii7 a7a<br />
yu7n xa Ii7 chkom 7o Ii7 a7a yu7n xa ta jlok'betik<br />
sbek' yat," xiik la 7un. Mu xa bu ya7yoj yilel komo<br />
lomem xa ta lum 7une.<br />
7Entonse, bat la stamik tal navaxax 7un, tza—kbat<br />
la taj sbek' yat 7une ja7 la ya7yoj lek 7un, tza—kbat<br />
la xcha7-p'ejel taj sbek' yat 7une yu7n xa la<br />
chtijanbat taj navaxax 7une te xok'ajtik taj<br />
solteroetik 7une, 7a taj k'al te tze7el tzakbil xa taj<br />
sbek' yat 7une ja7 7o la tzisin 7un, xp'i71uj xa la taj<br />
xchak 7une pero ta—j to la chotajtik laj k'otukeee<br />
7inel la taj jlok'-7atetikeee, stz'itluj taj chauk 7une<br />
ja7 no la lok' 7o taj stzis 7une, 7isvo—k' la skotol taj<br />
nail chukele ja7 7o tal li sutum 7ik'e 7i sjunlej ti<br />
kwartele 7isvok' la skotol, ti tuk'etike skotol ta j-mek<br />
7istam ti sutum 7ik'e ja7 to la ti bu javajtik laj k'otuk<br />
ta nome, svo—k' slilin la skotol ti naetik ta j-mek<br />
7une.<br />
7Entonse, solel 7ilom skotol 7un, 7inel skotol ti<br />
solteroetik 7une.<br />
7Entonse, ja7 lek livre kom ti jchi7iltaktik 7une.<br />
7Ora, mu k'usi spasik ti jchi7iltaktik 7une ja7 7ilok'<br />
tal 7un tzobol 7italik 7un.<br />
Bweno, te ch'ab 7o ti k'op yech 7une 7iyikta 7o<br />
sbaik ti Watemala 7une porke ti vo7nee che7e toj<br />
mas to 7ox la pukujik ta j-mek ke ti yu7un<br />
chiyak'otik taj ta 7asete 7une chisjup'esotik 7une, ja7<br />
taj tzlok' to 7ox 7at ti vo7ne 7une.<br />
7Ora, lavi 7une mu xa k'usi xcha71evan 7un komo<br />
yilojik sna7ojik xa, 7o yech vo7ne kwentoetik ti<br />
vo7ne nan ya7yojik xa komel 7une mu xa k'usi<br />
xcha71evan 7un, mu xa k'usi xcha71e jun krixchano<br />
mi 7o xk'ot 7une, porke ti vo7nee che7e ja7 taj toj<br />
7ep ch'ayem ta j-mek ti jchi7iltaktik vo7nee yech'o ti<br />
ja7 yech 7isnopik 7une, komo 7oy to 7ox tzotz<br />
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