Open AccessTe' tendsun yajkti te' näwayomo'. La cabra y la mujer del río
Author(s) -
Román de la Cruz Morales,
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Román de la Cruz Valencia,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
tlalocan/tlalocan: revista de fuentes para el conocimiento de las culturas indígenas de méxico.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2954-5242
pISSN - 0185-0989
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.2022.1.8725x12
Subject(s) - legend , art , narrative , face (sociological concept) , humanities , history , art history , literature , sociology , social science
Te' tendsuŋ yajkti te' näwayom' is a Zoque legend told by Román de la Cruz Valencia from the town of Ocotepec, Chiapas. This legend was recorded in June 2017 when the speaker was 63 years old. The characters of the narrative are some supernatural animals or nahuales. The narrator indicated that there was a brave boy who wanted to find some of these animals to greet them, touch them or ride them. The boy always walked alone at night in the hopes of meeting some nahuales. The first one he found was a goat tendsuŋ that, when trying to ride it, the animal hit and injured him. As time went by, on a night with a full moon, he ran into the woman from the river näwayom' who was washing her clothes there. The boy approached her to see her face, lit a match near the woman’s face, and at that moment, the man lost consciousness for a day. All Zoque legends transmit a message, in this case, the storyteller indicates that his audience should avoid having contact with nahuales.