Oral History #086: The Lord of the Mountain Punished the Adulterers

Authors

James Mondloch
Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'x
Diego Guarchaj

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Description

The narrator tells the story of how the Lord of the Mountain punished a man with a grave sickness. The man's wife summoned a shaman to divine what was causing her husband's illness. The divination showed that the Lord of the Mountain made the man sick as a punishment for his adultery in the Lord's forest. Before he died, the man confessed to his wife, that he had been unfaithful.

Publication Date

1-1-1968

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico

Keywords

Diviner; Supernatural; powers; adultery

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Mondloch, James; Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'x; and Diego Guarchaj. "Oral History #086: The Lord of the Mountain Punished the Adulterers." (1968). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_kichemaya/72

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