Mazateco: About the Origin of the Rainbow (Narrated in Mazateco)

68 Voices - Animated short films that showcase myths, poems and oral traditions in each indigenous language of Mexico.
About the origin of the rainbow
They say a long time ago, there was a man embarrassed by he’s nudity.
One day there was a powerful lighting and the man decided to go ask for its help. After several days of traveling, he arrived and told it what troubled him.
The lighting, touched by this, gave the man a gift and told him:
“I’ll give you seven colors to paint your body with, they’ll dress you forever, and people will love you and look at you amazed.
That’s how the rainbow, that announces the arrival of the sun after the storm, was created.
That’s how the Mazatecos tell it.
Credits
Title: El origen del arcoíris
Locution: Brígida Zacarías Ortela
Traduction: Brígida Zacarías Ortela
Direction: Gabriela Badillo
Illustration: Renata Galindo
Animation: DIECINUEVE 36 / Directora Creativa: Maribel Martínez Galindo, Supervisión de Arte y Animación: Sofía Inés Cázares, Apoyo Ilustración: Koosuke Amezcua, Diseño: Cecilia Rodríguez, Animación: Sofía Cázares, Adrián Gutiérrez, Project Manager: Jeannette Dondé
Adaptation: Gabriela Badillo
Original Music: Enrique Quiroz / Biovo
Audio Design: Wetback / Igor Figueroa
Coordinator of production: Brenda Orozco
Duration: 1.00 min
A production by Hola Combo, Canal Once, INALI, CDI
Year of production 2016 #Mazateco #Mazatec #Indigenous

[@daianycarrera5487]

I really enjoyed it! What a very well done video, I loved the quality of this and the language! Please, keep making more videos like this, about the origins of things and phenomena in the view of native americans ♡♡

[@atlasaltera]

This is beautiful.

[@henrybelliveau4975]

so much different than nahuatl or mayan. the fact that oto-manguean languages are 1) the only tonal languages in north or mesoamerica, 2) the most widespread, and 3) the most diverse, makes one wonder if they are not also the most ancient...