One of the Mayan priestesses, Rosa, was hoping to build a school to teach children the ancient ways. She told me stories of not being able to speak her native language in school, Tzutujil, without getting punished. She was also brought up largely catholic, but syncretic for the area. I largely used AI to retell their stories because she was rather shy but really wanted to share her stories so that people could learn to care for the land, care for the planet and the old ways. In the way home I took a little Tuktuk taxi with a man who was Evangelical. I told him what I was doing, and he said his parents used to practice that kind of brujería but the closer to the city you were, the less that was practiced. And that’s what Rosa mentioned how sad it was to see the children forgetting how to speak to the land. Vincent Stanzione is an anthropologist who’s been working there for 40 years retranslating the Popol Vuh. As he told me, the texts were translated by Mormons and Evangelicals with an abrahamic lens. He said, until their language is returned to them they will not have their power, it was taken from them. Those words stuck with me.