Bor Maax (62), dressed in a white cotton robe, boots and cap, takes in his hands three stems of a small plant. At first, from three flowers three gods were born, he says. ‘Hachakium, god of gods, and his two brothers.’ Hachakium then created his people, the Hach Winikthe True People, out of the mud. The evil god Kisin He wanted to perform the same miracle, but from his mud animals emerged that spread throughout the jungle.
“That’s what we learned from my father Chankin,” says Bor Maax. Being close cornfieldOn his small-scale farm, the rainforest stretches across the hills. Fog hangs over the treetops, clouds are waiting to rain. At the green edge of the forest, crickets whistle loudly with their rough legs. This is Nahá, one of the last remaining pieces of the Lacandon jungle in the southern Mexican province of Chiapas.
