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Niktaya ne tal pal niktuka ne mil, pal tik nukal muchi nupijpilawan wan nusiwaw te kiseliat mayan. Kiunij panuk sujsul shijshiwit.

I worked the land and grew corn so that my children and wife wouldn’t go hungry. So the years went by.

How I Have Carried Nawat To Many Countries

Yejemet tesu kimatit, ken an tejemet tikmatit, ka nemi se Tiut ka te tikishmatit. Yejemet kishmatit katka tay kitat, ken ne tunal, ne at, ne tal, ne tawial, ne kwajkwawit, ne kojtan: ipal itakwal, ipal ne tapewil, wan ne kwajkwawit pal kisaluat itakil pal tikwat pal te tikseliat mayan.

They didn’t realise, as we now know, that there is a God whom we didn’t know. They recognised the things they could see, such as the sun, the rain, the land, maize, trees, and nature, which provided their food, game, and fruit-bearing trees for food so as not to endure hunger.

Mother Rain, we thank you for making the fruit grow, for you irrigate the land so that the grass will germinate and the trees will grow green and blossom.

You, Mother Rain, do not see who is good, and who is evil; you flood all the earth so that the fields and the trees will flourish.

La tierra está limpia y pide manos a la obra.

Cuando aquí es de noche, es porque está bajo tierra.

Tikita nikan (nian) se kawayujchin, se mistunchin ne kijkitzkia (kitkijkia) se kimichinchin; ka ne ume peluchichin ka mutalua sin ke tzutawa ishpan inan? Ka nikan (nian) se tukat kenha nemi kicha ivavayu pal kitzkia ijijkwich iwan sayulin; ka ne se taltusan iwan ne weweyak iwan wan kwekwelna ijistit kwilewa ne tal, kitemua sijsikat pal kikwa; mas ka ne se takatzin ke musewia itan ne tunal chichinawi kipupua ne kojtan pal tik yaja kituka: tawiyal, shishikama, et, kamu, kanyash, ayu, talkamu, pula, kinia iwan teya muchi yaja ne tik techan timunekit; tik ini lado, se siwatuchti wan ume ipilawanchichin kinma' inchichit; tik ne seuk se at ka tzikwini wan wetzi ka patak kojtik pak wejwey wan tzijtzitzintik talpetat ka yaja ne at patak kutzajtzi saya mukwepa istak pusu iwan ini iwan mukwepa senpa pal yawi tik ne weya ujti; at tik wejwey ustut muitat panut mijmiak clases mijmichin, chakalin, tekwisi, ajayutzin iwan majmayankamet akukemet.

Ves aquí un caballito, un gatito que cazó un ratoncillo; allá dos perritos que corren sin cansarse cerca a la madre? Acá una araña que parece estar haciendo su tela para cazar moscas y mosquitos; allí un topo, que, con sus largas y corvadas uñas escarba la tierra, buscando hormigas para comérselas; más allá un hombre que sin descansar bajo el ardiente sol limpia el campo para en él sembrar maíz, jícama, frijoles, yuca, caña, oyama, batata, plátano, guineo y de todo lo que en el pueblo hace falta; en este lado, una coneja con sus dos conejuelos al pie dándoles de mamar; en ese otro, un río que salta y cae de muy alto sobre grandes y duras peñas, por lo que el agua hace mucho ruido volviéndose blanca y ésta, aquella otra vez, para seguir su largo camino, río que en sus profundas pozas vense pasar muchas clases de peces, camarones, cangrejos, tortugas y hambrientos caimanes.

The silk-cotton tree came donw, down came the silk-cotton tree and its brances touched the ground.

When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.