El mito de los RARÁMURI y CHABOCHIS - Mitologia Rarámuri - PUEBLO TARAHUMARA

Or the straw in front and get comfortable, this is the step of the myth. Today, thanks to the suggestion of Samuel Morales, we bring you the myth of the Rarámuri and Chabochis. The ancient Rarámuri legends tell that in the beginning, only the sun and the moon existed, materialized in the form of two small children. These children lived in

absolute poverty, dressed only in palm leaves, and inhabited a small hut made of sticks and palms. They possessed no earthly goods, much less riches. It is said that their poverty was such that the girl was forced to eat the boy's lice to survive. And despite being the sun and the moon, they had no brightness nor did

they provide warmth. This was because the great sun god, with his caterpillar, had created a dark and imperfect world. Even so, he decided to test it, and for this, he took several ears of corn, husked them, and with the corn formed the figure of a man, blowing on him three times to give him life.

Later, he made the woman, to whom he also gave three breaths of his breath, and a fourth, since she would need more. strength to give birth to their children, and thus the Rarámuri, the race of corn, were created. Meanwhile, in the terrible realm of darkness, another creation was gestating. The brother of the

sun god, a terrible demon who inhabited the underworld, felt a devastating envy for the creation of the Rarámuri. He then set out to create his own race of men, but since there was no corn in his kingdom, he bit into his figures made from ashes and breathed life into them. And that is how the Chabochis were born.

But they still lived in a dark and incomplete world. The Rarámuri could not interact, much less cultivate the land. They had to remain holding hands at all times to avoid tripping over the stones and falling into the ravines. It was thus that one day they decided to heal the sun and the moon by touching their