Ahkabal-Ná 2100. Third Part: Myths and Legends of Petalcingo, Chiapas, Mexico

By Pablo Hernández Encino

Finally, the cavalier Shanhuinic, the serpent, has been freed from the dangerous hand of the man. He put his life at risk for centuries. How many times has he escaped death, the slashing of machete and the hitting he received for trying to cross the roads in his serpent form, carrying at his back the heavy treasure chest. But thanks to Nicols, though with his dull mind, he was able to help and save the serpent from the final slashing of
machete.
More than a recognition, Shanhuinic considers it as a profound gratitude on his part. Tatic Mamal decided to offer the treasure box to Nicols. Hes worthy for this fortune because of his bravery and patience. It now depends on him if he will flourish his wealth or allow it to vanish. He also has the witchs rings. May everything go well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palibrio
• Release date: Aug 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781463337148

Pablo Hernández Encino

Pablo es el último tkajol que lucha por mantener viva su cultura y origen Pablo es un humilde campesino e in¬dígena tzeltal originario de Petalcin¬go, Chiapas, México. Nació el 17 de octubre de 1943. Su signo zodiacal es Libra, y es el mayor de los nueve her¬manos, hijos de don Diego y de doña Anita Encino Cruz, ambos ya finados a la fecha. Su lengua materna es el tzel¬tal y su vital alimento es el posol. Pablo empezó a hablar el castellano a la edad de 12 años cuando él mismo se presentó a la escuela por primera vez y no entendía nada lo que le preguntaba su primer maestro. Anteriormente sus padres no lo enviaban a la escuela, pri¬mero: porque no era obligatorio para los niños indígenas asistir a la escuela; y la otra, por ignorancia. Su original vestuario era hecho de tela de manta blanca que su propia madre le hacía. Eran calzones sin cierres ni bolsas, y en vez de cinto era una tirita de la misma tela que amarraba en la cintura para que no se cayeran. Pablo, el último “tkajol”. Tkajol o tkajoles es un apodo que alguien les puso por ser campesinos piscadores de maíz, o porque los veían muy ton¬tos. A ciencia cierta, nadie sabe el sig¬nificado. Pablo escribe su historia, escribe su memoria, es¬cribe su pensa¬miento, escribe los relatos de sus abuelos, escribe sus sue¬ños y su viven¬cia infantil. Vive su propio mundo de fan¬tasía y se sien¬te privilegiado y heredero de sus antepasa¬dos. Escribe su pasión por la ficción. Crear y dialogar con sus propios personajes y nombrarlos a cada uno de ellos en su propio dialecto es su debilidad y entretenimiento. Sus per¬sonajes son tan reales que ellos hablan y actúan con un extraordinario sentido de humor, transparencia y profundo mensa¬je. Pablo ha escrito una excitante serie de cuatro libros titulados “Ahkabal-ná 2100”, que narra una apasionante y loca aventu¬ra en el mundo insólito de Tatic Mamal, la diosa Shínula y Shánhuinic, el hombre serpiente, que hoy se complace en com¬partir con el público lector.

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Ahkabal-ná 2100

~ Third Part ~

El Bobo Lake and the Enchanted Bell

A world of fantasy by

Pablo Hernández Encino

My Deep Thanks

To my daughter Sonia and to her husband, Hugo Mercado Labastida, and to my son Gerardo. A million thanks for helping me get ahead. Also to my other children: Ivonne Aracely and Pablo. And to my grand children: Karla, Dieguito, Ana Laura, Sheila, Sheila Naomi, Fernando and Ricky. All my love goes to them.

With great affection, this book is dedicated

to the following persons:

To my siblings: Modesto, Sergio, Diego, Maria, Chabela, Sofia and América. A fraternal embrace to my much beloved hometown, Petalcingo, Chiapas, México. Your town that welcomed you when you were born, said the Lawyer Carmen Martínez. Thank you very much. To my close friend Alejandro Alex Gutiérrez and his relatives, thanks for your collaboration. To my cousins Emilio and Felipe Martínez Hernández. With much love and full of my deep respects to my aunt Manuela Hernández López. She is the last one still alive. An authentic Tzeltal full of tradition.

Also to my friends: Humberto Gutiérrez, who lives in Yajalon, Chiapas, México; Arenita Trujillo, from Petalcingo, Chiapas, México and Ellen Doyle, from San Mateo, California.

Pablo Hernández Encino

Ahkabal-ná 2100

Copyright © 2012 by Pablo Hernández Encino.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Creative work, illustrations and cover design by

Pablo Hernández Encino

Translated by Fortunato Brown

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Witchcraft School

Chapter 2 The Witch’s Rings

Chapter 3 The Area of the Baby Angels

Chapter 4 Acknowledgements

Chapter 5 The Old Book

Chapter 6 The Treasure Trunk

Chapter 7 Farewell and Departure

Chapter 8 Nicolás and His Binges

Chapter 9 The Teacher Beats Luquitas

Chapter 10 Luquitas Left Already

Chapter 11 The Earthquake in Petalcingo

Chapter 12 The Stolen Bell

Chapter 13 El Bobo Lake and the Enchanted Bell

My gratitude to my teachers from

San Mateo, Adult School:

Mary Peros, Patricia Brown, Katherine Lieban, Lisa Dolehide, Daphne Lagios, Lirio Adlawan, Elizabeth yales, Bruce Neuburger, Mark and Glen.

A special thanks to Mr. Tim Doyle for the opportunity.

San Mateo, Adult School

789 E. Poplar Avenue

San Mateo, CA 94401

Tel. [phone]

www.smace.org

Also my gratitude to:

Angela de la Peña and Christina Lazaro. My representatives from Palibrio Publisher. Thanks Palibrio for believing in the book and me.

Pablo Hernández Encino

Ahkabal-ná 2100

Pablo Hernández Encino

This exciting series is available in English and Spanish!!!

Ahkabal-ná 2100

Mitos y Leyendas de Petalcingo, Chiapas, México

Ahkabal-ná 2100

Myths and Legends from Petalcingco, Chiapas, Mexico

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Ahkabal-ná 2100. Segunda Parte

Tatic Mamal y sus Raíces de Oro

Ahkabal-ná 2100. Second Part

Tatic Mamal and His Roots of Gold

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Ahkabal-ná 2100. Tercera Parte

El Lago de ‘El Bobo" y la Campana Encantada

Ahkabal-ná 2100. Third Part

El Bobo Lake and the Enchanted Bell

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INTRODUCTION

In this last-but-one part of this story I have been really both impressed and intrigued in a terrible dilemma. How kind Tatic Mamal really is or how perverse is he actually? What does he mean with his philosophy? Is he really an impacting, very wise and powerful cashlan? Or just a quack and liar in front of those who believed him, irrespective of their ideals? In the end, he is only a mythological character who has shared his fantastic world with us through Nicolás, by means of the memory of this fictitious character, who through his always intoxicated brain was brave enough to face all the obstacles set to him by Tatic Mamal. With my great respects, I offer this character this small tribute.

Goddess Shinula is a sweet, tender and sensitive girl who represents all the girls, encouraging them to become actual Shinulas by year 2100. And her tears have also fallen down her cheeks, upon watching the disastrous consequences of her father’s experiments. The young Shanhuinic, the serpent man was appointed beneficiary of some potentate to carry the trunk full of the reassure. Lum, Puy and twenty other land serpents were his good friends. The mischievous skeletons had lots of fun. Rays fought to death against enemy rays. So did sorcerers against sorcerers. We don’t know if Witch Meloshko is still alive or has already given up. Luquitas left Petalcingo.

But I continue attracted by the fascinating and crazy adventure lived by Nicolás. He managed to lead us to know the beyond, the other dimension of life after death. And we could also see and listen to the songs and thankings of all species that inhabit mother earth. We came to understand that we should nor simply exist but live. Trees and the other plants that cannot speak, that only move because of the wind, also say thank you.

All of them know how to thank, except us …

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Witchcraft School

Chapter 1

Tatic Mamal is preparing to go and inspect every and each of the installations where his students practicing their witchery, and orders their children and Nicolás to accompany him. But, really this demonstration is for Nicolás to see everything there is within his realm. And before this man leaves the mountain, Tatic Mamal wants him to know very well all and every training shop.

All the future sorcerers are practicing at this moment, and it is the purpose of the master to come at class time so that Nicolás may record in his mind everything he has seen in this kingdom of the old Tatic Mamal.

Nicolás is really surprised and a little awkward again at the frightening places where he is being taken. It is his first visit to the locations; he had never before visited the place where the aspiring sorcerers and witches were being trained.

In the previous book we told you about the enormous old buildings, cold and semi dark, that are hardly lit by some candles placed on some of the decaying walls. Tatic Mamal and his children look happy and enjoy seeing how the practitioners exercise their abilities, but Nicolás is just the opposite; as they walk further inside, Nicolás is overcome by fear, as these places are adequate only for these beings who have come to practice in order to carry out wickedness in the future. Our town has been for centuries full of sorcerers, and in the future it will continue to be even more so. I wonder, shall these new sorcerers use their wicked knowledge in the future? Shall they earn their living by killing people with their witchcraft? We don’t know, but they are preparing themselves for this dark activity.

New Rays fighting against other Rays; new mischievous skeletons; new sorcerers and witches who transform into piglets, calves, turkeys and other animals just to have some fun scaring people.

People say that the purpose of these practitioners is to learn witchcraft and that they do not aim to become cashlans as those who invoke Tatic Mamal. Anyway, whichever their purposes, they have come from town, and here they are practicing under the instructions of master Tatic Mamal, and here they have met other learners who have come from other places in the world for the same purpose. Only that there are no distinctions here: tzeltals and cashlans are all treated just the same.

Tatic Mamal explains and advice Nicolás to act with discretion and respect in