Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town Imagery

Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town Imagery

Hearing

The narrator recalls listening to stories told before the arrival of Christ, which depicts the sense of hearing to readers. The narrator says, "According to the stories I had heard before Jesus Christ decided to make chicha, there was only water."

The imagery of sight

The description of the Devil's actions to transform chicha into rum enables the reader to see the entire process, thus, depicting the sense of sight. The author writes, 'The Devil got together with his demons, and they transformed chichi into vile rum. Since the Devil is cleverer, he made an apparatus that two horses move to extract the syrup of the sugar cane, and with that, he made rum.”

The imagery of Jesus Christ tasting rum

According to the ancestral story about alcohol, the Devil interfered with the rum that Jesus had earlier made. The Devil converted the chicha to rum and asked Jesus to taste it because it was better than his. When Jesus drunk the rum, he got drunk. Then the Devil asked Jesus to bless the rum, but Jesus did it using the left hand because it did not taste good. The author writes, "He blessed it with his left hand because he didn't want to bless it with his whole heart. He had already tried it, and the rum was a little bad.”

The mode of women’s living

The description of how the women lived in Maya town in ancient times depicts the sense of sight to readers. The author writes, "Archeological and ethnohistorical studies suggest that before the Spaniards arrived in Highland Chiapas, women lived in kin-based societies where they fulfilled important productive and symbolic roles."

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