Mayan Civilization And Its Culture

Mayan civilization and its culture

Introduction.

This book talks about different characters and the context of Mayan culture. This is Aunt Charo, Father Matías, but mainly from Jacinto Canek and the Guy Child, they are two characters that will fill you with the heart of love for the peaceful relationship and knew they have. Especially Canek’s enormous wisdom. Hence, an analysis can be done on the greatness of knowledge that these people can transmit to us and that they are often belittled and judges only for their appearance. Cultures can be treasures, it depends on how we approach them.

Developing.

Jacinto Canek taught the child guy many things, including how to behave and make ears to all the expletives that Aunt Charo said about him. And Guy was a child who came from another context, possibly urban who took him to this because they no longer tolerated him and did not want people to see that he had a slight intellectual disability. As they know socially there are things that weigh and that people prefer to do as they do not exist to face them with knowledge. Also Aunt Charo (belonging to that family) treated Guy bad.

But things didn’t stay like this. There was someone who noticed Guy and that was the Indian Canek. A man of value who, although he does not literally pronounce him Ermilo Abreu he adopted him as a son, the son who died and who could no longer take care of. Guy became his son and thus reciprocally formed a beautiful family surrounded by love, wisdom and divine protection.

 Another of the characters is Father Matías a devout man of God who was one of the few who practiced what they preach (as well as the priest of the house of the spirits of Isabel Allende) and defended equality among men and that it was not treatedbad to anyone to belong to a certain economic possibility or culture. The characters are scarce, the necessary. The end is very raw and that is why I am not going to tell you so that you investigate it, but it is very painful, if they are sensitive people like me, they will cry.

Ermilo Abreu’s book is also a content full of reflections, thoughts and wisdom that should be analyzed and think about how to apply it in our life. Some of them still have them and what is useful for all. It has to do with learning beyond and knowing how to live simply. An impressive, contained philosophy that as a reader will motivate you to learn more about the Mayan culture.

In this work we enter the Mayan world of the Mexican territory, back 1730 where our protagonist is Jacinto Canek (Kaan EK) in the Mayan language means black snake, he is an Mayan indigenous who lives along with other indigenous people on the farm of afamily from Spain. In that place we know another relevant character of the book;Guy (or as they almost always name it, ‘El Niño Guy’), the family of this peculiar and sensitive infant is the owner of the farm where Jacinto is found, therefore the encounter of these two is inevitable.

As they have to know, in those times the native race was subjected and dominated by the conquerors, therefore the Maya were victims of cruel humiliations and abuse, there were no rights for them and had no value for their ‘masters’. However, Guy is not at all in that way, quite the opposite!: It is kind, sensible, curious and above all friendly, therefore it comes to forge a precious and unconditional friendship with Canek. Throughout the work, the innocent occurrences of this character will flood us with tenderness.

With the passage of the narrative, the situations that lead our Mayan hero to summon their race to rise against the yoke of slavery are diverse, since tremendous injustices will not be endured for much longer. 

Conclusions.

This book is based on real events, as Jacinto Canek was a real person who won and initiated an Indian rebellion in 1761;At the beginning of the book the author tells us that the love he felt for his land and the narratives of Mayan Indians led him to write this book. Abreu with a poetic and deep voice, calls us to know the past of our land and somehow invites us to be proud of our people who with dignity were subordinate and finally achieved his freedom.

Canek, well or bad, is the book that best reflects my pain for the pain of the humble, of the Indians of my land. If your reading enlivens the consciousness of man in the face of injustice, I will be satisfied. I am going to read this novel more than once, because it is the voice of all those who fell before humiliations and barbarities, it is the voice of brutally stripped people of their lands, which always had the only intention of recovering them. I would like everyone to read this book, it is undoubtedly a cultural treasure of Central America and the cultures that inhabit there.