(birds chirping)
-This is a story of corn.
For Mayan culture, it is sacred.
It is revered.
(corn stalks rustling)
It is in fact how humankind became to be.
(lively music)
(water trickling)
This is Santa Lucia Lachua, Guatemala.
Home of the indigenous Q'eqchi.
There are over 20 different Mayan languages,
and of all the variations, there is only one word
that is common to all.
Ixim
Ixim which means corn.
To the Q'eqchi corn is the centerpiece
of the creation story.
The creators tried all sorts of different objects
to make man from, but it wasn't until they used corn
that man was perfected.
(cheerful music)
After four perfect men were created, they made the women.
This ceremony, the watesink
is to give thanks to nature and the Q'eqchi ancestors
for all they have given.
(corn stalks rustling)
(rooster crowing)
(insects chirping)
(corn husks rustling)
(insects chirping)