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Rabinal Achi / ZapatistaPortAction Quichí-Achí, speaks for the eighth time: Cala-Achí! Ha! Aha! Yeha! Ahau! Wow! Achí! I: Quichí-Achí Balam-Achí Balam- Quichí Rahaual- Quichí-Vinak iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii kiiiiiiiii kikikikikikiki Quichí-Vinak to you: Hobtoh Rabinal-Rahaual, Great Chief Five-Rains: Oyeu Achí! Listen to me Approve of me to the sky-face to the earth-face. This is what I say to your mouth to your face: Allow me two hundred and sixty days Allow me two hundred and sixty nights to go salute u vach nu huyabal u vach nu tagahal my mountains' faces my valleys' faces where long and long ago I went alone to the four corners to the four walls to look for to encounter my needs my food. No one answers him. Then, dancing away, he disappears for a moment. Without returning to the Gallery where Chief Five-Rains is seated, he approaches the Eagles and Jaguars posted in the middle of the Court around an altar. O Eagles! O Jaguars! "He's gone" you said a moment ago. No I hadn't gone No I hadn't disappeared I went for a moment to say good-bye to my mountains' faces to my valleys' faces where long and long ago I went alone to find my food to find my meals in the four corners along the four walls AAAH SKY! AAAH EARTH! my valiance my bravura were no use. I figured out my way below sky below earth I opened my way among grasses among thorns. My valiance my bravura were no use. AAAH SKY! AAAH EARTH! Do I really have to die to die in this place? really disappear disappear in this place O my gold! O my silver! O my arrow's sons! O my shield's sons! my Toltec war-club! my Toltec axe! my wreaths my sandals! go back to our mountains go back to our valleys! Take our news to the teeth of our Man to the face of our Governor "It's a long time since our valiance our bravura has looked for our food has found our meals!" says the word of our Man the word of our Governor He won't say so any more now all I expect is my death now all I expect is my disappearance under sky here and on the earth.