Mexico’s president has posted a photograph on his social media accounts displaying what he says seems to be a mythological woodland spirit much like an elf
ByThe Related Press
February 25, 2023, 7:20 PM
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president posted a photograph on his social media accounts Saturday displaying what he mentioned gave the impression to be a mythological woodland spirit much like an elf.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador didn’t appear to be joking when he posted the photograph of an “Aluxe,” a mischievous woodland spirit in Mayan folklore.
López Obrador wrote the photograph “was taken three days in the past by an engineer, it seems to be an aluxe,” including “every thing is mystical.”
The nighttime photograph reveals a tree with a department forming what seems to be like a halo of hair, and what could also be stars forming the determine’s eyes.
López Obrador has lengthy expressed reverence for indigenous cultures and beliefs. Engineers and staff are within the Yucatan peninsula, developing a vacationer prepare that’s the president’s pet venture.
In response to conventional Mayan perception, “Aluxes” are small, mischievous creatures that inhabit forests and fields and are susceptible to enjoying methods on folks, like hiding issues. Some folks depart small choices to appease them.
The traditional Mayan civilization reached its top from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D. on the Yucatan Peninsula and in adjoining elements of Central America, however the Mayas’ descendants proceed to reside on the peninsula.
Many proceed talking the Mayan language and sporting conventional clothes, whereas additionally conserving conventional meals, crops, faith and medication practices, regardless of the conquest of the area by the Spanish between 1527 and 1546.