CHAPTER 3 AN INVOCATION IN THE QU’ICHE LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION

This is my friend, Kike, who I hope will be joining us on the Bard one of these days…..right now he’s at Guadalajara, speaking about origin languages, so I said, maybe we can have him in one day. But he’s such an enthusiastic and wonderful person, and he speaks English. At the beginning of this recording he speaks a little piece in Spanish which is his own invocation.

Then I translated it and then I’ll go on to read the rest of what he was reading in Qu’iche is the full text, a couple of pages. Then what I’m going to read is a slightly more compact version which I’ve been working on myself, but it still has all the I’ve tried to preserve all the literary wealth of the original text. So what he says is.

 

Grant us leave, o grandmothers and grandfathers who left for us the Popol Vuj book to create Memory and to remember where we came. From, where lie our origins. Grant us leave o hallow day, o energetic gifted to us by our grandmothers and ancestors. O energy given us by the air flowing through our vocal cords. We come here then to remember through reading of the book by Dr. Luis Enrique Sam Colop to evoke our memory, to remember.