#k'iche

[folkfashion]

K'iche Maya girl, Guatemala, Odethy Tzep

[tredawakandan]

Was watching Cursed & saw the scene above. For anyone that doesn't watch the show this scene is between two characters of the Fae/Fairy race. Basically a group of magical beings that are being hunted. If you follow me then you know I show how they hide our history often by saying supernatural monsters for responsible for certain things. The two pics above from China prove this. But back to the video it shows a Black women mentioning how she served Queens. This being a important fact since alot of our ancient empires featured women in high places. From the European point of view this was Matriarchy. A point that I disagree with though is we having matriarchy. It was more we had balanced roles & didn't subjugate women like the Europeans did. The film avatar shows this to me. Neytiri parents both played their parts in leading their tribe. Anyways May the power of Females return 💯

[tlatollotl]

Burial Urn with Modeled Jaguars

Maya

About A.D. 600–900

K'iché, Southern Highlands, Guatemala

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

DAM

[medievalpoc]

A Rare Public Display of a 17th-Century Mayan Manuscript

With the book newly digitized, scholars are reinterpreting a story of native resistance from within its pages

Libro de Sermones is a reminder of what she calls the brutally violent mandatory conversion to Catholicism. The Spanish colonization involved forced labor, and the Mayas who refused to give up their original religion were often jailed and tortured for heresy. Maya artifacts were deliberately destroyed, and most of their sacred texts were burned. Pérez-Báez says the book was likely produced by native speakers of K’iche’ whose original, indigenous names had already been replaced with Spanish names, who were being converted against their will.

“To me, being an advocate for linguistic diversity in this respect of human rights, it’s very difficult to hold a document that was an important part of the conversion to Christianity and all of the abuses. This book was representative of an era during which colonialism and the associated conversion to Christianity oppressed the indigenous population in often violent ways,” Pérez-Báez explains.

K’iche’ is spoken today by more than one million people, and thousands of K’iche’ speakers now live in the United States, according to Sergio Romero, a professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin.

It’s the way in which the K’iche’ were able to cope with the Spanish invasion and the Christian invasion . . . . They didn’t assimilate,” he says. “What they did was appropriate certain elements of Spanish culture to be able to adapt and defend and protect their own spaces of political and cultural sovereignty. So K’iche’ religion today is really a hybrid religion that has elements of Spanish origin and elements of Christian origin and this document shows that very well. You can see how certain words were actually bent by the Spanish to be able to convey certain meanings and you can see how those certain words were interpreted in a different way by the K’iche.’”

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[tlatollotl]

K'iché burial or cache urn lid

Maya

Late Classic Period, A.D. 650–850

Object Place: K'iche, Guatemala, Southern Highlands

This unusual rectangular burial urn lid has a circular hole cut into its front to give access to the urn’s interior. The hole is flanked by low-relief, profile renderings of a rearing jaguar, the same image appearing on the front of the urn’s bottom section. Atop the lid is a modeled and painted anthropomorphic being who wears circular earflares and strings of round beads around his neck and below his knees and tubular beads on his wrists. He may be identified as the Maize god because a stalk of maize emerges from the top of his loin cloth/hip wrap and he holds a maize cob in his left hand. He also has attributes of the solar deity K’inich Ajaw, including a tau-shaped tooth and close-cropped hair His double-flanged headdress is embellished with a low-relief rendering of a double-headed serpent. Traces of carbon are found on the exterior of the lid and its base (1988.1297b), indicating that the urn came into contact with fire perhaps associated with burial or cache rituals.

MFA

[0pal-m0nroe]

wait wait, to anyone who speaks k'iche: how is is aj -wa used? what is the difference between b'aq and b'aaq?

need some answers because story oc reasons...

[messoamerica]

Book of Catholic sermons and poems written in K’iche Mayan • Guatemala • AD 1690

[fenrislorsrai]

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

Lawyers, translators, donations, protest.

Big huge list of org. Updates as more with specific programs are found by readers. 

The most needed type of volunteers are lawyers and paralegals.

The Texas Civil Rights Project specifically is looking for Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche speakers with paralegal or legal experience.  Spanish translator are easier to come by, but the other 3 languages you may still be of help even if you have no legal background

Women’s Refugee Committee has info becoming a foster family for a child separated from parents or volunteering to visit people in detention/prison.