DPF / Anonymous (Tzeltal, Tenejapa)

For every heart in Tenejapa, from Selected Translations, by WS Merwin.

from Story of the Eaters / by Anyonymous (Tzeltal, Tenejapa) 1971, from a literal translation by Katherine B. Branstetter’s informant Santiago Mendes Zapata

Those who pray and burn candles to God himself
So the eaters won’t eat them.

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