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Honduran creation myth

Parchment style artwork of Ixmena weaving clouds, Lenca Indigenous Honduran folktale.

The Woman Who Wove Clouds

Clouds did not always move across the sky above the highlands of Intibucá. In the earliest time remembered by the Lenca people, the sky was bare and hard, exposed to the burning gaze of the sun. The mountains stood unprotected, and the earth cracked under relentless heat. It was during this age that a woman named Ixmena lived among the

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