The Guatemalan Farmer Who Hoarded Sacred Seeds: A Tale of Collective Care
In one highland village where the traditional ways were still carefully maintained, there lived a farmer named Ixbalanque, competent and hardworking, whose fields generally produced well through his diligent labor. He was neither poor nor wealthy, neither particularly generous nor notably stingy, but somewhere in that middle ground where character has not yet been tested by significant temptation or challenge.