“El contador de flores”
RI AJILANEL AJKOTZ’I’J,
Sometimes a momentary lapse of intuition and subsequent decision making, defines our actions, much more than what is pondered or calculated. Tat Te’k wrote a lot and one fine afternoon he had the idea of asking me to record all his work on a USB which, more than a decade ago, was a totally unknown gadget in the mountains of perennial fog, his place of residence. He is a man of all times, in one arm carrying his lap top and with his hands counting incense seeds and bouquets of flowers.
A selection of his poetic work is presented now from that device. It is a book where the ancestral song, the secret life of the clouds and the wind, the animals that help us to think philosophy.
Tat Te’k did not walk alone, on the paths on the way to the Maya altars, our ancestors whispered the songs of the Popol Wuj, protected him and sat by his side to listen to the most sophisticated and neat k’iche’ when he lit the fire of contact and communication.
Now, between leaf and leaf, flower and aroma of the text, I invite the reader to discover the master.
Dr. Yolotl González Torres
Specialist in Mesoamerican studies
Honorary life president of the Mexican Society for the Study of Religions
Honorary life member of the International Association for the History of Religions
El “Contador de Flores” is a very beautiful book, what the ajq’ij Tat Te’k shows us in his poems is a great sensitivity and wisdom. In them we can see reflected the K’iche’ life and philosophy of a “day counter”, the calendar specialist. From the poem dedicated to the grinding stone or to his faithful companions the dog and the cat, to the invocation to the Progenitors, Heart of Heaven and Heart of Earth that take us to the living world of the Popol Wuj, which our ajq’ij has translated into several Mayan languages and into Spanish. In each poem there is a wonderful rhythm that is understood to come from generations of singers and artists of a civilization that never died out, it just had to be transformed.
Apab’yan Tew’s introduction is very moving, and we thank him for rescuing that USB with such valuable material. I have worked for many years with Apab’yan, as a researcher he is indefatigable and, now as a producer, admirable. I highly recommend this reading and also to follow up on the editorial work of Jade Co. that makes it possible to have these thoughts on hand.
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