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Indigenous Mexican tales

A traveler and a rabbit under a bright moon showing the rabbit’s shape, from a Nahua folktale in Mexico.

The Rabbit in the Moon

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October 30, 2025
In the earliest days of the world, before cities rose and rivers were named, the sky was vast and silent, and the earth still glowed with the warmth of its creation. The Great Spirit Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, descended from the heavens to walk among humans. He wished to know their struggles, to feel the dust on their feet, the
A woman scattering glowing corn seeds in a golden field, inspired by a Mixtec Zapotec maize legend from Oaxaca Mexico.

The Corn Mother’s Gift

Long ago, when the mountains of Oaxaca were still young and the clouds hung low over the valleys, the people faced a time of great hunger. The rains no longer came, the rivers shrank into narrow streams, and the soil turned dry and cracked beneath their feet. Children cried with

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