THE LEGEND OF THE X'TABAY

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There is a tale of an ancient Mayan legend that tells us that in a small town lived two beautiful women sisters of blood, an era known as the Xkebán that was translated as a sinful woman because she gave herself constantly to the pleasures of the flesh, so that Honest people from the place felt disgust for her. On the other hand his sister who was known as the Utzcolel who was considered a good woman by the settlers because of which they loved and respected.

In spite of the fame that each one had, there was an even greater difference, because the sinful woman was surprisingly of great goodness, because she enjoyed helping those in need, caring for the sick and healing them, just as she was Great defender of the animals because he took care of them like a precious treasure, said animals and sick whom he helped they loved him much; On the contrary, his sister never tried to help or sympathize with anybody since he considered them inferior and unworthy of her.

One day suddenly he was no longer seen leaving Xkebán from his house, it was strange for the neighbors, and so many days passed until they noticed the smell of a beautiful perfume that following him led them to her house, when they noticed Who was already dead and that the smell came from his lifeless body that was generated due to the care of the animals whom he defended and gratefully cared for his body to the pantheon, together with the patients he healed, only They went to the funeral, during the passage the pleasant perfume was scattered by the streets by which the funeral procession took his body. At dawn the next day, a very rare and beautiful flower emerged from her tomb, which was known as Xtabentun, which generates a nectar that sweetly intoxicates all who drink it, as their unbridled love that once enveloped the mens.

Her sister Utzcolel felt a deep envy when she learned of this pleasant aroma, claiming that it was the work of the devil, and she asserted that her pure and chaste body would smell even better after death, for if the sinner's was beautiful, her purity would untangle something better.

After a while Utzcolel died, the whole town was filled with sadness and went to the funeral with the certainty that like his sister would give off a pleasant aroma, but his surprise was very great to note that the woman's fetid body gave off a Extremely scary smell. Immediately buried and surrounded by beautiful flowers, the strangest thing was to notice that the next day that they were already withered and instead had appeared another flower of name Tzacam that is in fact a cactus prickly and with the minimum rose causes a pain Deep, it is from that cactus where a flower sprouts that despite being so beautiful it does not give off any aroma.

The envy was so great that even after death the "good woman" thought that the fate that the body of his sister had run was due to the misconduct carried in his life, without thinking that in reality was due to the essence of his Being, it was his great nobility that had been rewarded in Xkebán when he died and not the fame that had been created

The envious sister succeeded in summoning the evil spirits who gave her the gift of returning to the world of the living whenever she wished, having apparently already adopted the attitudes of the sinful woman, the only attitudes she learned were those of passion It is said that even in our times it is revealed by some men whom she considers attractive, whom she calls appearing under a tree of Ceiba, while combing her long hair with a piece of Tzacam, seducing them into theirs and then killing them in the midst of such overflowing passion.

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nice post