LINGUIST 2L03 Lecture 10: VI Culture-5.6
22 Oct 2017
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The most important things for us, for example, water is sacred. So (entonces), we consider the earth the mother of man: our parents teach us to respect the land, you can only hurt (herir) the earth when there is need, we must ask permission (permiso) for before cultivating it. So we perform a ceremony: puts a candle to the representative of the earth, water, corn, which is the food of man. It is considered, according to the ancestors, that we indians are made of corn: we are made of white corn and yellow corn, according (seg n) to our ancestors. The candle represents man as a child of nature, the universe: these candles are made and all family members come together to pray, mostly for permission to land, to give a good harvest. It also pray to our ancestors, by mentioning their prayers, that have existed for a long, long time.
