EL Huay Chivo
The legend tells that The “Huay Chivo” is a magician formed as an enormous black goat, whose eyes glows purple. He eats the hen and the individuals who has confronted him, they sucumbed to excessive fever and sickness.
Practicionist of the black magic, he likes to do his satan acts in lonely, darkish locations.
In accordance on what’s believed, he’s half human, half goat. He has the pinnacle of the goat and human physique however he can assume another kinds, like a canine (Huay Perro).
So wayfarer, take care of your self of strolling after the midnight the place the Huay chivo roams for this evil being who hates gentle and loves darkness, can bestow on you all his evilness.
Cenotes
There are a lot of legends in regards to the cenotes. Right here there are a few of them:
A pair with out youngsters present in a cenote slightly woman which was named Nicte-Ha (water Flower). The woman grew in magnificence and age and so a mayan warrior needed her. Someday he ran after her so as to get her and she or he fell right into a cenote and the water claimed what was its personal. Her physique appeared later, floating on the cenote. White flowers appeared within the mouth of the woman and two white pigeons had been scattering the flowers everywhere in the ceonte. When the moon is full, Nicte-ha sings within the cenote whereas his cursed stalker wanders within the woods.
The good priest of Chichen Itzá, Ah Kinxoc, had a phenomenal daughter referred to as Oyamal. Two princes brothers, Ac and Cay, fell in love along with her. Cay was the chosen one however in his ire, Ac enclosed Oyamal in Chichen Itza’s cloister, and to Cay in Kauá’s waters. Cay crossed the underground labyrinth as much as coming to the cloister, however Ac stunned the couple, who managed to cover within the grotto the place they but stays and within the nights of Xac (January), a voice is heard that claims Yacumá! (I really like you).
A Mayan priest dedicated the sacrilege of falling in love with a princess and each hid in Xtacumbil-Xunan’s grottos. However the spirits, infuriated, remodeled the princess right into a statue of stone (some figures of the cave) and to the priest in one among seven lakes of the cave referred to as Putsu. When the human voice is heard there, this lake strikes again and returns when all is silence. The water is the soul in sorrow of a priest who scares and run away when he hears voices.
Many incredible beings, because the aluxes, reside or are associated to the cenotes. Landa (Spanish priest) supposed that the cenotes had been shaped when a lightning sruck the floor. The Mayan had comparable believes because it follows the creation of the cenote Xlacah from Dzibilchaltun. An previous and drained man got here to the home of his son to ask for a chunk of bread. The ungrateful son, regardless of having fun with many comforts, denied the meals to his father. God took the looks of the previous man and went to ask for assist the son, who returned to refuse. Then, God, to punish the ingrate, made fall a beam of lightning on his home. Sinking within the soil, the cenote Xlacah was shaped.
The identify of Yucatan
The identify of the peninsula was given through the Spanish Conquest. Although there are a number of statements that coincide with that this origin would have been given by a verbal misunderstanding (amongst) the Maya and the conquerors, all of them are unsure sufficient.
Considered one of them tells {that a} Spanish approached a mayan and requested in regards to the identify of the land, which the mayan responded: Yuk ak katan (I do not perceive your language). In different one, the reply was Yucatan (I am not from right here). Different tells the mayan folks answered uh yu uthaan (hear how they converse) and the Spanish folks heard Yucatan. In different reply, they stated Ci u than (I do not get it).
Most likely the primary narrator of the story of “I do not get it” was Toribio de Benavente, Motolinia, who writes on the finish of the chapter 8 from the “Tratado III”: “As a result of talking with these Indians of that coast, what the Spanish had been asking to the Indians: “Tectetan, Tectetan”, meaning: “I don’t perceive you, I don’t perceive you”: the Christians corrupted the phrase, and never understanding what the Indians had been saying, they stated: “Yucatan is named this land”; and the identical factor was in a Cape, whom additionally they had been referred to as Cape Cotoch; and Cotoch in that language means home.”
