English translation by Esthela Alarcón
Dear friends - below please find my attempt at the English
translations for my brother's last message to all. Thank you Sonia Gutiérrez for you
input. I am posting the original print. As mentioned before, this comes from a
transcript I did from a video recording my sister did the night before my
brother Francisco X. Alarcón
passed. Listening to his words was not easy, as he proclaimed them with the little
energy he had left. But his love and passion came through.
¡Viva la vida!
Esthela Alarcón
January 14, 2016 (a recording from my brother)
"I want to invoke the unifying force of the universe that
in the Mesoamerican tradition is called Teotl.
Teotl means unity, the divine unity that is made up of two
forces: Teoquecutli and Quezihuhuatl – the female divinity and male divinity.
And together we greet the four directions – as we have done in the past:
To the North – Tahui!
To the East – Tahui!
To the South – Tahui!
And to the West – Tahui!
As we invoke each of these four directions, we remember love,
charity and hope – that are all universal. Because in the end, the truth does
not only belong to one pueblo; it belongs to all. All human beings share the
same aspirations and hopes. They aspire for the divine. They aspire to
transcend. They aspire to have a place in the universe that can be everlasting.
I have had the privilege of learning about the Mesoamerican
tradition in a very profound way. The day when human beings can truly feel and
appreciate and in some way value that tradition, that has been oppressed for
over 500 years, and that we the Mesoamericans continue it, in our hearts as
something real, as something that belongs to us.
That is why it is so important for me, that at the end of the
day, its charity and hope, faith in humanity, that is able to sweep away these
borders, these barriers, these obstacles that separate us one from another,
that makes some think they are greater than others.
Even Pope John XXIII already believed in this – and now I think
that Francisco I has been able to be true to this tradition.
I want everyone
here, united in one spirit, to do our own invocations, feeling them as our own.
Feeling them as we are one in this great calling. The calling of one human
being to another. From one human to his own weakness, so that he or she may
listen. So that in any given moment, that inner weakness is moved and is able
to proclaim this petition.
Let us convoke the last Tahui.
Beginning in the
direction of the West. Tahui, Tahui.
And then to the direction of the South:
Tahui, tahui!
And then to the direction of the East: Tahui, tahui.
And finally
to the direction of the North; Tahui, Tahui!
So that we do not feel like foreigners in our own land.
This is
our tradition.
This is what belongs to us.
This is our weakness.
Tahui! Tahui!
Tahui! Tahui! – that represent: The sun, the earth, the wind and the fire.
May peace be always with you. Tonatiuh in Tlanextia. In Tlanexia
Tonatiuh.
May the sun always shine within you.
Thank you.
© Francisco X. Alarcón
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