September 18th, 2006, 9:41 pm
From a speech by Subcommandante Marcos over the weekend:There is a Mayan legend. We are Zapatistas, indigenous of Mayan roots. And they say that the moon is a goddess: Ixchel
This goddess worried about caring for the land and cared for and raised men and women of the color of the land. And that it is during the day that the moon hides and protects herself in the land and that those men and women, the farmers, the indigenous men and women, are those who have to care for the land during the day, so that in the night she comes out, again, Ixchel, the goddess of the moon. And in exchange for this, she gave them the power of healing, the power of medicine. And since then, these men and women, we who are the color of the earth, have this healing power.Matt
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