X-Cacal Guardia
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Coordinates: 19 ° 52 ′ N , 88 ° 11 ′ W Tixcacal Guardia on the map of Quintana Roo
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Quintana Roo | |
| Municipio | Felipe Carrillo Puerto | |
| Residents | 659 (2010) | |
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| Post Code | 77146 | |
X-Cacal Guardia (also Xcacal or Tixcacal Guardia ) is a remote Mayan village consisting of several hamlets with around 4,300 Mayan- speaking inhabitants (1995) in the area of today's municipality (municipio) Felipe Carrillo Puerto in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo , 35 km north the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto. The village of X-Cacal itself, which has a good 600 inhabitants (2010), is still today a religious center of the Maya in the immediate vicinity as the site of a speaking cross .
After the capture of Chan Santa Cruz by Mexican troops under General Ignacio Bravo , Maya fighters ( Cruzoob ) found refuge with their relatives in X-Cacal and continued to cultivate the speaking cross. The Cruzoob of X-Cacal continued the guerrilla fight and only recognized Mexican rule in a peace treaty in 1935 as the last of the rebellious Maya.
Culturally, they have been able to retain a kind of autonomy (similar to the nearby Mayan villages of Chumpón and Chancah Veracruz ) to this day, including the military organization dating from the time of the Caste War . The keeper of the cross ( Nohoch Tàatah , "Great Father"), who receives his orders from God through the speaking cross, is both spiritual and worldly authority. Access to the Speaking Cross is denied to non-residents.
literature
- Alfonso Villa Rojas: Los elegidos de Dios - etnografía de los mayas de Quintana Roo. Capítulo V: El cacicazgo de X-Cacal. México, Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1987. 571 pp. ISBN 9688220779
Web links
- El cacicazgo de X-Cacal (Spanish) ( Memento of November 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Jesús J. Lizama Quijano (2000): Yucatán - Identidad y Cultura Maya - Introducción. Los mayas cruzo'ob. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (Spanish)
- Las señales del fin del mundo: Una aproximación a la tradición profética de los cruzo'ob (Spanish) ( Memento of January 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- El Derecho a la autonomía de los Máasewalo'ob (Spanish) ( Memento of July 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- The Cruzob - The Rebel Maya (English, with a picture from X-Cacal from 1974)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catálogo de Localidades: Tixcacal Guardia