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Question for March 2024

What would happen if you didn’t believe in any gods?? Asked by Buckhurst Hill Community Primary School. Chosen and answered by Dr. Raúl Macuil Martínez

Our soul would wander alone, unaccompanied, given that neither wind, nor earth nor rain would be with us. Today it’s quite easy not to believe in anything - except in life itself (we all see, touch, eat...) - but I was brought up to believe in the elements (earth, air, fire, water) and in Christ and the Virgin of Guadalupe; being Catholic, my grandmother and my mother taught me to believe in them - they will accompany us when we die, and look after us in the next life.

Qué pasaría si no creyera en ningún dios, pues nuestra alma vagaría sola, sin compañía, ya que ni el viento, ni la tierra, ni la lluvia estarían con nosotros, hoy es relativamente fácil no creer en nada, salvo en la vida misma, porque es lo que vemos, tocamos, comemos, pero a mi me enseñaron a creer en los elementos (agua, luz, tierra, fuego) y en Cristo, y en la Virgen de Guadalupe, pues son católico, y así mi abuela, mi madre me enseñaron a creer en ellos, y ellos mismos son los que nos acompañarán cuando muramos, ellos nos cuidarán en la otra vida.

Picture note/source:-
A very rare iconographic reference to Xochitonal (life force): Matrícula de Huexotzinco (1560), folio 568r; downloaded from https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=215&st=image&r=-0.945,0,2.891,1.468,0.

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capstasher

22nd Mar 2024

Hey is this question actually answered recently? I didn’t think the site was still running! The folklore of Mexico is really fascinating

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