{"id":2739,"date":"2020-08-27T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2739"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:29:16","slug":"lixtu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2739","title":{"rendered":"Lixtu"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lixtu, Cerro de Coatepec\u00b9<\/a><\/div>\n
told by Manuel Oropeza Castro<\/div>\n
This text is a CTot version of the myth of the Aktsini, a pan-Totonacan myth. An Upper Necaxa Totonac version is published in Beck (2012). It relates how at the top of the hill of Coatepec there was a lake where the pigs used to drown. Even though the townspeople called the priest to exorcise the hill, these disasters went on. The townspeople then decided to drain the lake and to fill it up with soil. Everyone knew that the water of the lake was evil. At night, animals came out of it, no one could understand what they were talking about. The elders did not know that the devil lived inside of the lake, until one of the elders spoke to him. The townspeople, wanting to get rid of the problem, filled the lake and thus finally scared the devil away. The devil left in the direction of the horizon, where the sky meets the earth. From there it rumbles before it rains, with lightening and thunder that make the earth shake.<\/div>\n
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\u0294anta\u00e1 k\u0161aqsti\u02d0p\u00fa\u02d0n li\u02d0\u0161t\u00fa_, \u0161wi\u00ed \u207ftlanka\u010du\u010d\u00fat_.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00ab{<\u0294anta>\u2261\u02d1}\t{<k\u0161aqsti\u02d0pu\u02d0n>}\t{<li\u02d0\u0161tuh>},\u00bb\t\u00ab{<\u0161wi\u02d0\u2261\u02d1>}\t{\u207f\u2261<\u03bbanka\u010du\u010dut>}.\u00bb<\/div>\n
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\u0294anta\u0294<\/div>\n
nak=\u0161\u2013\u0294aqsti\u02d0pu\u02d0n<\/div>\n
li\u02d0\u0161tuh<\/div>\n
\u0161\u2013wi\u02d0<\/div>\n
\u03bbanka\u010du\u010dut<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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there<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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loc<\/span>=3poss<\/span>\u2013crest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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li\u02d0\u0161t\u00fa<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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pst<\/span>\u2013sit<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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lake<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018There, at the crest of Li\u0161tu, there was a lake.\u2019<\/div>\n
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