Workshops with Movida Maya!

Today's class with @movida_mayaincluded a chant/poem apparently dedicated to the mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos); to flowers, jade, and humanity.

Long time attributed to Nezahualcoyotl - Nahuan philosopher, warrior, poet, architecht and more - the chant is now being analyzed by antropologists of the UNAM university who claim it to be apocryphal, in a way an instrument to create the identity and loyalty towards the post-revolutionary government, just as other conversion instruments during the post-colony, and just as ancestral rulers used calendars to claim the legitimacy of their being rulers.

We shared this chant with the students merely to transmit them to appreciate Life in the beautiful and diverse ways we find it expressed out there.

The chant goes like this in Classic Nahuatl, descendant from the Proto Yuto-Nahua, just as Yucatec Maya descends from Proto Maya:

In Centzontototl:

"Nehuatl nictlazotla in centzontototl icuicauh, nehuatl nictlazotla in chalchihuitl Itlapaliz ihuan in ahuiacmeh xochimeh; zan oc cenca noicniuhtzin in tlacatl, Nehuatl nictlazotla".

The Mockingbird:

"Love the Mockingbird, bird of the 400 voices; love the color of jade and the enervant perfume of flowers; but I love more my brother, the man".

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