The transcribed text can be regarded as the central myth of the Chinantla and was compiled in the year 1972 between the living chinatecos Ojitlan municipality, District of Tuxtepec, in northern Oaxaca State, an ethnic sector that formerly was part of the lordship of Chinantla called Pichincha.
The Chinantla this was Hispanic cultural unity, politically organized around domains or local states. Although it was one of the tributary provinces of the Aztecs, his first significant break was due to the English invasion, generating a process of cultural and political fragmentation was exacerbated during the colonial period and especially after independence. At present living in distinct communities Chinanteco, both politically and by the fact that we speak different dialects of the rich common language. However, despite this diversity of ethnic communities are still bound together by ideological and social ties as a code share specific symbolic and the performance of similar cultural practices. MYTH
CHINANTECO
Whenever people weighed about Pochota tree, you could hear a noise that flowed from inside the trunk. One day people will stare at to see where the noise came, as it seemed that someone talked or hit on the inside of the tree. Then went to look for the Comet to crack the tree, but Comet could not split the wood. Then went to look for Ray (Ni), but Ray could not split the wood. Then called Woodpecker (Mi'ne'mo) and asked him to itch wood, they had all failed in the attempt but had confidence in him, and always succeeded in their businesses. The Carpenter accepted, flew and landed on the tree from which flowed the noise. The bird began to bite and suddenly the sound of his shots became more profound.
Soon timber broke and there were two eggs inside the trunk. Asked people who had found and the Carpenter told them his discovery, he said he had found two eggs inside the trunk. Then an old woman asked that they be given, that she was going to save up to see what kind of animal out there. Carpenter gave the old eggs and wrapped it in his handkerchief and I take home upon his shoulders. When you get home put your eggs in one basket, in a Chical used to keep the tortillas. There
I leave every day and watched to see if they had been broken, but the eggs remained intact even though he spent a long time. Every day the old man came out of the house to find food for their husband Deer (A'kua'nay). One day I return home he found that everything was in disorder, their skeins of cotton were riots. This began to happen every day, every time he came to his house was all messed up, but could never find the culprit. Then suspected eggs but snuggled his ear to them and hear nothing. That happened until one day he realized that the Hummingbird (Tan'chi) sang on the road, just before she entered the house. Then he went back the next day by a different route than he used to take. When he got home I go at once and saw a boy and a girl. When the old woman heard the children ran to get inside the shells of the eggs, but she arrived late and could not hide and that's how the old woman discovered.
The Crone's forgiven and said he was going to take their children. The children were Sol (Y'e) and Luna (Cy). Sun and Moon were furious that Hummingbird they had not been advised of the arrival of the Elderly and went to look for punishment. At that time, the Hummingbird was big as a chicken, but stay small because the Sun and Moon pulled as punishment for not notifying them. They were then
Sun and Moon as children of the Crone. She came every day to get food for her husband Deer. One day the brothers told him not to leave again, that they would bring food, and then went out every day with their bows and arrows to hunt animals and look for herbs. But the old woman had told them not to go to some place in the forest and yet you disobeyed Sol y Luna. They went to that place and there a bird spoke, the bird had told them not to go there to feed the birds killing a woman who was the true mother of them.
When they heard these words Sun blew away the birds that had killed and they revived. Returned to the house of the Crone and her husband decided to kill deer. They agreed to kill him while the Elder was not in the house. Were they killed and ate the flesh of his father. Next they tried the old man did not realize what they had done. Cojieron a large clay pot and filled with wasps. Wasps put into the pot to make it appear that a person was snoring. When Elder arrived and asked for her husband, Sol said was asleep and the sound of wasps was his snoring. But Luna did not remember the trap and said he was out fishing deer and contradicted themselves and discovered the old woman her husband died Deer.
Crone was then anger and then began chasing the two brothers. Ran for a long time and the old woman was to be achieved. When the sun was about to reach moon asked the hair pin, Moon and Sun gave it put the pin in the same way and there was born a hill. The brothers continued to run and the pass was slow Crone Hill. Every time the old woman was by Sun to a hill aboriginal women to be delayed, and that was that the soil was covered by mountains, so are the mountains today.
then came to a river, a river overgrown and the arrival of the brothers began to swim to the other side. The Crone also jumped into the river, but when I was in the middle, the brothers threw a ball and Crone acuyo fell dead and became Tepezcuintle (agoutis). Of blood were born many animals, thousands of animals were born of his blood, and she herself did Tepezcuintle, so until now the Paca's near rivers. Went their way to the East brethren. They walked to a place where two large boulders that crushed people as he passed among them. Then Sun and Moon made blowguns, each had his blowgun (ma'ti) and shot them to the rocks. When the missiles hit the rocks, they were opened and sprouted inside butterflies, butterflies that have circles on the wings, are the traces of the shooting blowguns Sun and Moon.
brothers walked on, reaching near a mountain, where a man told them to leave, because the mountain live a seven-headed eagle which robbed the people and led to the summit. Moon then suggested they make a wooden cage and tuck in, so that the eagle could not take them separately, so they could defend the two together. So they did, they cut sticks and they did a little cage and went inside. Just when he had entered the eagle, took the cage and was flying to the summit of the mountain. At the top of the mountain were many people and most of them were wounded or sick. Sun said that by the eagle with people who are stealing and they replied that they are eating. In turn it was eating people, so soon enough to eat the brothers because there were many people there.
Then Luna asked what time the eagle was asleep, he was told that at noon, but that six heads and stayed asleep watching. When the eagle slept Sol Luna asked if he had something to tie the eagle's head. Luna said that he did not bring anything. Sun became angry and said she never thought about anything, but that he himself brought in to tie the eagle's head. After saying this, he took off his belt sheepskin, it cracked into two parts and made a loop in the middle. They threw the rope around the eagle's head and began to pull one side, aided by people who were not so sick. They
so hard and moved the animal began to tremble as the earth, the ground shook like an earthquake. Then the brothers approached the eagle when he was dead, looked up and saw what he had done so hard that his eyes had gone out of their orbits. Glowing eyes, but the right shining more intensely than the left. Sun wanted to take over the right eye but Luna was faster and picked first, and left each with an eagle eye, but the moon was brighter. Then wanted to come down the mountain where they were, but it was so high you could not walk down.
thought as down and then called the buzzard for down. The Buzzard's collected on his back and tried to take them down, but could not bear the weight of the two brothers, only spinning in the air, unable to descend to the valley. Brothers got angry, got out of Buzzard and told him that was useless, and therefore from now on would only eat rotten meat.
The brothers called the Tucano, fed him seeds of a fruit and told him to defecate at the foot of the hill. So did the Tucano and their droppings sprouted long branches that climbed up the slope, but did not have enough strength to reach the top of the hill. They called the bat and went to defecate down the hill. Their droppings sprang a great tree bark that grew so tall that its branches reached the summit of the mountain. For these branches down the two brothers and all prisoners of the eagle sick and injured, fell behind them.
then the brothers continued their journey to the East, they walked as they began to feel very thirsty. Luna complained and suffered much from thirst. When he saw that Sun told that if they changed the eye of the eagle, he would find water to quench their thirst. Moon accepted the deal so that the sun was bright eye, that's why Sun is brighter than moon. At that time there were no springs, the murmur of water running underground, but there was no water anywhere. Sol then ripped a bit of grass and then began to grow a beautiful spring, so far no springs, Sol was the one who created the springs.
When the water came, Sol Luna told not to take that first had to find a priest to bless the spring. He left Sun to find the priest, but Luna could not bear the thirst and drank the water that was blessed.
When Sol returned with the priest realized that Luna had been drinking, because the water was around his face, as Moon has water now when you see the halo around him. Luna has a halo and a hole above the upper lip. Since then there is that little hole on the upper lip of the people. Sol was furious when he saw his sister had disobeyed, he became so furious that the priest grabbed and threw it Luna's face. The priest hit with such force against the left Luna marked forever, that is why today Luna has many spots on his face.
that is left after the brothers and went to heaven. Juna'ri was waiting there to be God. There juna'ri he named them both, the name was Juan and Sol de Luna Lupe. Juna'ri then gave instructions that Juan went to work for Sun and Moon Lupe. Luna protested and requested that she wanted to be Sun, Sun wanted to be to light more. But Sun was the most brilliant eye, the eye of Luna did not have enough light to illuminate. That is why the moonlight shines less than the sun, so it was Sol took the charge to enlighten the world.
Rapporteur: Nicholas Zaragoza
Ojitlan Township, Tuxpetec, Oaxaca
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