EL MAIZ
Mexico
In Mexico, the corn is essential to the daily diet, it is the largest crop of the country, and constitutes great input to the livestock and obtaining different industrial products. Therefore, it can be seen as the biggest and most important agricultural crop for the food industry and from the economic, political social point of view.
Mesoamericano
con pasado de grandeza,
tu destino escrito está
en cada tortilla cilíndrica.
Esculpe tu vida
en territorio de jade
y teje tu sueño
como la araña su hogar.
Sólo el gran xëëwmaypië
puede descifrar tu futuro
con granos de maíz
y tu sol volverá a brillar.
el que lleva la cuenta de los días
Mesoamerican
With past of greatness,
Your destiny is already written
In each cylindrical tortilla.
Carve your life
In territory of jade
And knit your dream
Like the spider her home.
Only the great xëëwmaypië
Can depict your future
With corn grans
And your sun will shine again
The one who keeps count of the days.
Mesoamerican
The Mesoamerican man is made from corn. The development of the Aztecs, Mayas, Zapotecas, Mixtecas, Purhépechas, Totonacas, Mazatecas, Chinantecas, Zoques, etc. is build up on the cultivation of corn. In its stories, legends and tales, corn is the god, reason, and raw material that constitute the first humans. It is also the reason for its agricultural and festive calendar. The Nahua culture named it “tlaolli”, “their livelihood”.