Xoljal/ the mesosphere: a space for maroons, for the energetic refugees, for the magicians and poets, lovers and hope-full romantics, the interlopers moving between dimensions, los vagabundos y los que siguen perdiéndose. Here is a place for rest and refuge, respite from hostile worlds that aren't made for us. Let this space cozy your dreams, your visions, your magic/
Xojowik/ aqui, bailan mis ancestros. In this space, we talk and play with our ancestors, and our inheritors. We eat together. We dance together. There are figures without faces, who offer warm greetings all the same, jasmächa’. They offer ancient, familiar food, they dress in exquisite fabrics and dance with confident grace. They are warriors, poets, scribes, astronomers, crafters, and everything in between/
The mesospace reverberates into this dimension, demanding manifestation, encoded through weaving, energetically mediated by copper, and materialized in garments/
sutinaq — circle
ulew — land; soil; earth
uxlab ulew — vapor from the earth
uxlabal — soul, breath
qajbal q’ij (n) west, in divination with the past
tail — rhythm
mul — time
kem, kiem — weaving
time is thick and palpable and pulsing. woven and swaying, speaking, listening. stretching, compressing, jagged, flowing. ordered and asymmetrical
kach ch’ich — copper
q’aq — fire, heat
q’axanel — mediator; intermediary
energy buzzes, tingling ling ling , hanging in the air and in your cells, grounded in celestial bronze
chomal che’ — trunk
jumetal che’ — bark
k’amal che’ — root
stern and rooted, swaying and dancing, swelling in laughter, ja’jatemal. Here we sing to the trees, Oyaaaa, que oigan, y que escuchen
relibal q’ij — east, that which comes with the sun
uxlabal — soul, breath
uxlab ulew — vapor from the earth
ulew — land; soil; earth
sutinaq — circle
ulew — land; soil; earth
uxlab ulew — vapor from the earth
uxlabal — soul, breath
qajbal q’ij (n) west, in divination with the past
tail — rhythm
mul — time
kem, kiem — weaving
time is thick and palpable and pulsing. woven and swaying, speaking, listening. stretching, compressing, jagged, flowing. ordered and asymmetrical
kach ch’ich — copper
q’aq — fire, heat
q’axanel — mediator; intermediary
energy buzzes, tingling ling ling , hanging in the air and in your cells, grounded in celestial bronze
chomal che’ — trunk
jumetal che’ — bark
k’amal che’ — root
stern and rooted, swaying and dancing, swelling in laughter, ja’jatemal. Here we sing to the trees, Oyaaaa, que oigan, y que escuchen
relibal q’ij — east, that which comes with the sun
uxlabal — soul, breath
uxlab ulew — vapor from the earth
ulew — land; soil; earth
sutinaq — circle
