A Description of the Fair of San Juan Cotzal
Una Descripción de la Feria de San Juan Cotzal
Object Details
Subject Language | Ixil |
Language PID(s) | ailla:119533 |
Title [Indigenous] | Kam ech ipaasal vinimla q'ii u tenam K'usal |
Language of Indigenous Title | ixl |
Title | A Description of the Fair of San Juan Cotzal |
Language Community | Cotzal |
Country(ies) | Guatemala |
Place Created | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, Pulay, Quiché, Guatemala |
Date Created | 2016-06-23 |
Description [Indigenous] | Aatz tu u tenam K'usal, nipaasal inimla q'ii u Xhan tu kaava'l ika'k'al q'ii tetz u vaajil ich' nik'atb'al ya'b', kamchit ech ipaasal u nimla q'ii tzi', utz aatz b'axal nitxaalka ma'l ixviak aya' q'u'l a'tek sak'uchunsan u tenam, aatz ib'ii nitoksale' "xu'mil sajchii" unchee' nib'en tu tere'n tenam ti' ik'uchunsal u tenam K'usal. aatz tu viq'ii u Xhan nituch b'ixal tuch' nimal k'a'y. |
Language of Indigenous Description | ixl |
Description | In the town of Cotzal, they celebrate the festival of San Juan, which is on the twenty-fourth of June. The participant describes how this fair passes. At the festival, they first choose young women to represent the town. From them, they choose one winner and call her "flower of maguey." She goes to the other villages and represents her village of Cotzal. At the festival, they dance and salesmen come to celebrate Juan. |
Genres | Description |
Source Note | IXIL-CTZ-DES-EST-2016-06-23-0508 |
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Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Sánchez Toma, Edelmira Catarina (Speaker) Adell, Eric (Creator) Toma Cruz, Antonio Moisés (Transcriber, Translator) |
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