#shorts LEGEND OF MARIGOLD (CEMPASÚCHIL) #mexico (ENGLISH VERSION)

THE NAHUATL LEGEND SAYS THAT XOCHITL AND HUITZILIN WOULD CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN TOGETHER, TO GIVE FLOWERS TO TONATIUH THE AZTEC GOD OF THE SUN.
THEY HAD MET WHEN THEY WERE CHILDREN AND WERE INSEPARABLE. THEY HAD FALLEN IN LOVE AND SOON WOULD MARRY.
ONE DAY THE AZTEC WARRIORS SET OUT TO DEFEND THE LAND, AND HUITZILIN DIED AT WAR.
WHEN XOCHITL FOUND OUT SHE WAS VERY SAD AND WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN ALONE.
SHE CALLED TO TONATIUH, SHE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO BE WITH HUITZILIN AGAIN. THE AZTEC GOD OF THE SUN ILLUMINATED XOCHITL TRANSFORMING HER INTO A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER WITH INTENSE AROMA AND THE COLOR OF THE SUN.
THE FLOWER (XOCHITL) OPENED HER 20 PETALS AND IN THAT MOMENT A HUMMINGBIRD APPEARED ON THE FLOWER.
IT IS STILL BELIEVED THAT WHILE IN OUR FIELDS CONTINUE TO LIVE THE CEMPASUCHIL FLOWERS, THE HUMMINGBIRDS WILL CONTINUE TO COME. KEEPING THE LOVE UNION BETWEEN XOCHITL AND HUITZILIN.
THE CEMPASUCHIL WILL CONTINUE TO BE PART OF OUR TRADITION: THE DAY OF THE DEAD.PRESENT IN OUR OFFERINGS, IN OUR ALTARS. CEMPASÚCHIL ARE SYMBOLS OF LIFE. SYMBOL OF THE LOVE, THE LOVE WE HAVE FOR THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US.

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