The foundation of life

The header image above is maize hanging under the roof top in a Mayan family house. The picture is taken in Todos Santos, a small town in the north Western mountain highlands of Guatemala. The Maya depend on the maize for survival and it is believed, that you must always have maize in the household. It is like an offer to the gods, if you take the last bit of your stored supply even worse times are to come. The maize is sacred.

My Spanish teacher was a boy during the worst part of the civil war. He tells about the smell of burning maize, the smell of burnt crop that forever will be a part of the memories of the war atrocities. The government troops visited Todos Santos several times during the civil war an accused everybody of allegiance with the guerilla groups. They burnt their houses to spread fear and as a warning of worse to come unless they collaborated. With the houses burnt the sacred maize, and the smell of burnt crop is thus inseparable from the memory of the soldiers.

In many poor parts of the world people survive on crops like maize and maize is therefore a symbol of life. No family should be deprived from the ability to live of the fruits of their own work on their own land. The right to a fair distribution of land is fundamental, but not reality in our world. The maize is sacred.

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