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Literatura Indígena

Cuatro poemas con glifos mayas

  • por Hector Rolando Xol Choc (Aj Chab’in)
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  • June, 2022

Extranjera

 

Selección de haikus y glifos en lenguas mayas

 

Li kaxlan aatinob’aal yal k’anjelob’aal,
li qaatinob’aal, qach’ool.

 

La lengua extranjera es solo una herramienta,
nuestro idioma, es nuestro corazón/espíritu.

Frase adaptada al idioma Q’eqchi’ de la resistencia de los Mongoles.

 

 

Inch’ool

 

Selección de haikus y glifos en lenguas mayas

 

mi corazón
mi recuerdo
mi olvido
mi memoria
mi vida…

eso es Q’eqchi’
no indio, ni
indígena

 

 

Presente

 

Selección de haikus y glifos en lenguas mayas

 

At k’o chi nuchi’ chi nuwach.

 

Te tengo presente.
(Tú estas en mi boca, en mi cara).

 

 

Tu corazón

 

Selección de haikus y glifos en lenguas mayas

 

Nalemok aach’ool sa’ choxa.

 

Tu corazón brilla en el cielo.

 

Traducciones al español del autor

 

  • Hector Rolando Xol Choc (Aj Chab’in)

Hector Rolando Xol Choc (Aj Chab’in) is a Q’eqchi’ Maya researcher, linguist, and writer from Guatemala. He was educated in Maya Linguistics and Education for Maya Peoples. He has worked as a researcher of and advocate for Guatemalan Maya languages since 1997, and was a member of his community’s Maya K’iche’ leadership in 2017. As a university professor, he teaches courses on Maya Thought, Sociolinguistics, the Thought of Guatemala’s Peoples, and Education. He has also been a linguist and epigrapher with the Proyecto Uaxactun in Flores, Petén, Guatemala. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Maya knowledge, and he recently started writing b’ich Q’eqchi’ (Q’eqchi’ Maya poetry).

  • Paul M. Worley
thisoneworley

Paul M. Worley is Associate Professor of Global Literature at Western Carolina University. He is the author of Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures (2013; oral performances recorded as part of this book project are available at tsikbalichmaya.org), and with Rita M. Palacios is co-author of the forthcoming Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge (2019). He is a Fulbright Scholar, and 2018 winner of the Sturgis Leavitt Award from the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies. In addition to his academic work, he has translated selected works by Indigenous authors such as Hubert Malina, Adriana López, and Ruperta Bautista, serves as editor-at-large for México for the journal of world literature in English translation, Asymptote, and as poetry editor for the North Dakota Quarterly.

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