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Clase de Kaqchikel

Clase de Kaqchikel. tz’ik = to cook ewaj = to hide qetej = to hug tze’en = to laugh oq ’ = to cry tzaq = to fall . Rigoberta Menchu Fondation. Mission:

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Clase de Kaqchikel

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  1. Clase de Kaqchikel tz’ik= to cook ewaj= to hide qetej = to hug tze’en = to laugh oq’ = to cry tzaq= to fall

  2. RigobertaMenchuFondation Mission: The RigobertaMenchu Foundation contributes towards recuperating and enriching inherent human values to create world peace taking as its base the ethnic, political and cultural diversity of the world. To work to create justice and democracy, especially for indigenous peoples and natives. The Code of Ethics for Peace: There is no peace without justice, There is no justice without equality, There is no equality without development, There is no development without democracy, There is no democracy without respect for the identity and dignity of all cultures and people

  3. Centro Educativo Pavarotti • This middle school program located along the shores of Lake Atitlan. • Its objectives are to provide technical, scientific and humanistic formation with cultural pertinence or culturally appropriate material. • The program aids personal realization and encourages productive performance in youth and their communities.

  4. Civil War: Genocide 1962-1994 • 1982: Indigenous Mayan Indians protested governmental land policies. • Silent Holocaust: Over 200,000 killed or “disappeared” by governement : 83% were indigenous Maya. • U.S. government supported Guatemalan government with arms, supplies, training soldiers at School of the Americas • Strategic support to fight spread of communism

  5. Mayan Cosmology The Interconnectedness of all living things. Everything in the world is alive. Human beings are an older sibling not superior. Nahuales-the spirits that influence what happens on the material plane as well as the lives of people born on the day on which a specific nahual was Lord of the Day.

  6. Mayans and the Environment • Spiritual significance found in all living things • The ceiba tree • Great respect for the forces of nature • Conservation • A part of nature • Partnership

  7. Mayan Calendar 2012

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