K'iche' Maya Oral History Project
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Description
The narrator tells the story of two brothers who turn themselves into two different types of weather: wind and lightning. The younger brother lives in the ocean, and he is the sheet lightning that is seen over the ocean during a storm.
Publication Date
1-1-1968
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico
Keywords
Myth; climate; brothers
Recommended Citation
Mondloch, James; Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'x; and Diego Guarchaj. "Oral History #111: Two Young Men." (1968). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_kichemaya/54
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