To Kaxail

TO KAXAIL

I step and walk
on your flowering face,

Holy Mother, Holy Wildwood,
Sacred Earth, Sacred Ground.

Show me the way, Mother,
put me on the right track.

Rise up, Holy Rock!
Rise up, Holy Tree!

Come with me on the way up.
Be with me on the way down.

Sacred Mother,
Holy Breast,

Holy Kaxail,
Sacred Earth,

Holy Ground,
Holy Soil,

Sacred Ahau,
Holy Snake,

Holy Thunderbolt:
Protect me with your shadow.

—Maruch Méndes Péres


This was posted over on White Panties and Dead Friends , Bobby Byrd's blog site, doing some promo on a new book his publication company, Cinco Punto Press, INCANTATIONS: SONGS, SPELLS AND IMAGES BY MAYAN WOMEN.