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The Sun and The Moon

The Mayan legend of the Sun and the Moon tells the story of Kinich Ahau, the Sun God, and Ixchel, the Moon Goddess, who are united in love but face challenges due to Ixchel's curiosity about humanity. Their marriage is marked by a deep connection, yet Ixchel's longing for human experience leads her to the Vulture King, causing Kinich Ahau great pain. The tale illustrates the cosmic relationship between the Sun and Moon, their love, and the consequences of their separation, symbolizing the cycles of life and emotions in the universe.
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The Sun and The Moon

The Mayan legend of the Sun and the Moon tells the story of Kinich Ahau, the Sun God, and Ixchel, the Moon Goddess, who are united in love but face challenges due to Ixchel's curiosity about humanity. Their marriage is marked by a deep connection, yet Ixchel's longing for human experience leads her to the Vulture King, causing Kinich Ahau great pain. The tale illustrates the cosmic relationship between the Sun and Moon, their love, and the consequences of their separation, symbolizing the cycles of life and emotions in the universe.
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The Sun and the Moon (Mayan Legend)

The legend of the Sun and the Moon (Mayan Legend).

The Mayans admired Kinich Ahau, the Sun God, the deity that represented
the cosmic Christ, who lived in the four cardinal points and enjoyed the
eternal true love. It is he who has the strength to radiate life to the
worlds, to the Moons, to the planets and to the stars. However, whoever it
He knows, he says that they are capricious, that sometimes they burn the paths of
sowing, to signal the truth of the word, to open the consciousness of the
forgotten and punish the center of the sky. It is identified by its large eyes.
squares, by their twisted pupils inward and aligned teeth in
shape from T. His mouth had some lips
very similar to that of a catfish. It bears the Kin sign of the day on its forehead
cosmic, with which he warned that there would be modifications in the night when
the divinity would descend to the underworld.

The Mayan legend tells the story of the marriage between the Goddess of the
Luna Ixchel and Kinich Ahau. It is said that Ixchel was the most beautiful of the...
virgins of Izamal, never tasted the lips of a Maya warrior, the respect
and admiration for Kinich Ahau, was the strength of the spirit to endure
virgin and not fall into temptation. Among the Gods, Ixchel was the most feminine.
Beloved, I had marriage proposals. But she didn't care, her ...
true love visited her every morning no matter what
he was angry, since the Sun has a kind heart that radiated
love, tenderness and forgiveness. The Sun offered him the light of his life, the warmth of his
innards and sheltered in every minute the skin of his beloved. Between the night of
June 25, on the day without time, the Gods came down to earth and it was the day when
that Ixchel and Kinich Ahau got married. Kinich Ahau took with his two
he put his hands on his heart and his body, he broke it into two pieces and with a strong hug
and a kiss was given to Ixchel. At that moment, the two took their place.
in the universe, Kinich Ahau in the center of the Universe and Ixchel beside it
son that was being conceived, Caban is the love conceived between the Moon and
Sun, the Moon is closer to the Earth since the love of the mother it
needs. Every millennium the Moon moves away from its child hoping that one day
I never needed it.
The Moon so far from the Sun has stopped believing and loving. The age of the Moon.
It has deteriorated her feelings, the Moon has 4 phases due to effects of love.
and the sunlight. Throughout all this time, the Sun has only been able to illuminate a
face of the Moon in different surface proportions. the Moon unaware
the account has always had a dark side, a mask of polarity and
melancholy that removes the heart of the Moon.
The Sun is the creator of life, who provides light and warmth to its children, its
Children depend on light, it helps biochemistry, it is the Sun that provides.
emotions and sensations that their children receive through glands, it is
who determines the synchrony of life, the master of cycles within cycles, is
who determines the spiral in the stairs of heaven, who unites the teeth
of the synchronous gear of our galaxy with respect to others. Therefore
the life of Kinich Ahau is so busy that he could not fill the Moon with
your heat and your light, as it did in earthly times.
Ixchel, having no experience with humans, has wondered what they are like.
love of the man and among questions at the disappearance from the sky down to the earth to
to find the man who could satisfy her hunger for love, in the Jungle
the first man who hid among the branches of friendship and darkness
He was the King of the vultures, who was eating the meat of a baby on that occasion.
deer. In her love discontent, she chose him for every new night.
She could visit him, master her instinct, and make him her slave.
On a night, Kinich Ahua was searching for his wife, as he had left her.
time will fall into the chaos of existence, since her heart also
I missed it but I didn't have the strength for the Universe to fall into disharmony.
however that night it didn't matter to him, to taste her lips and weave his
arms together with theirs. But the surprise is that she was no longer there, Kinich
Ahua called to the stars to find her, one of them the brightest.
I mentioned that I had seen that it had come down to Earth and was in the jungle with
the vulture king. Kinich Ahua took the form of a dead deer and placed himself in
In the middle of the jungle, I called a mosquito and asked him to spread the word that there was
a corpse in the jungle. In a few minutes, a vulture arrived trying
to tear apart Kinich Ahua, in that he was taken by surprise and forced him to do so
He will take with his King. He arrived at the castle of the Vulture King and observed with great pain.
that Ixchel was in the Vulture's bed that JOXD. At that moment
he asked Ixchel to go take care of Caban to stay alone with that kingdom,
in the moment what Ixchel scouting
Kinich Ahau released such an immense glow that it burned everything around him.
around. Since then it is said that if the crops are burned by the
strong Sun, this event is attributed to the unfaithful Moon which is assured
has escaped with a new suitor. The Sun has never been able to mock his
destination and only the Universe allows it to meet the Moon every time
the two are aligned, since a love so immense even the universe itself
can stop.

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