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The revolution passed through it, yet it remained what it had been.
there is as much beauty as there is terror in the night.
Folktales are full of such coincidences that are never coincidences at all, but the brittle games of powerful forces.
“Illusions always wear off.”
happy to invent traditions for mass consumption, eager to forge an identity after the fires of the revolution—but
if you forget yourself once you’ll do it twice, and thrice, and soon—”
“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there’s power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power,”
There are twenty-nine recognized Mayan languages spoken throughout Mexico and Central America.
