The legend of the distant hills humid jungle of Oaxaca says, "is half man and half beast. You do not hear when it arrives. The lands of the people belong to Lachixila grandchildren grandfather jaguar ". When the fog closes and the wind does not mesty announcing the end, Everyone reminds the Jaguar de Luz, His message and springs a hope:
One night the two best hunters in the Cristo Rey La Jungle region, In Oaxaca, Mexico, They climbed two trees with their rifles. The Melquiades brothers and Alejandro waited patiently for the moon to perch and that the beast that had killed many sheep and calves of the town was shown. Suddenly they saw something move and before them appeared the feline murderer wrapped in a halo of penetrating light. They were petrified by their brightness and when they pointed the animal disappeared. "We pointed to the flesh and disappeared. We were very afraid and fled ", They say what happened.
Then they reported what happened to the Elderly Council, They told them that the tiger, as the animal also calls on these lands, carried a glowing light. Old, restless, They reviewed the stories of their grandparents, Those that have for example that the region was created by two men who at night climbed to two jaguars in opposite directions and when the crowned rooster were found and petrified, And they understood that this animal carried a message that had to be heard: "The jaguar intends to tell us something, You have to capture it without killing it ", They decided the wise. "Big people said if the earth does it, Something wants Earth ", The young people who ordered the elderly remember.
The Jaguar intends to tell us something, You have to capture it without killing it
It was decided to set up a trap with a sheep. Several nights passed until the light jaguar entered the cage. Then, The cat was loaded on the shoulders by the narrow paths of a mountain in disorderly perennial delivery and was delivered to the environmental authorities to prevent it from being executed. His jungle was torn off instead of his skin.
The cat was taken to Yaguar Xoo where during a process that lasted 14 months tried not to lose their wild instincts. There, The Jaguar lived with sad indifference as the artists of Oaxaca donated works for an auction that had to compensate the residents of the region for their damages cause. The auction had everyone's support while the "tiger" remained banished.
But the old village, meses despues, They met again and remembered that message from that Jaguar de Luz. They debated and understood that the mountain was not made for the use of cattle that modern times had sold them; They counted the trees that were carved and realized that their world shrinked with so many stick bodies; They understood the danger of the new mining companies willing to break stone and land, Water and air. "The virgin mount is culture. When the money arrives, one is sent ", They recognized the wise.
When the money arrives, one is sent
And then the old ones understood the message. It was decided that the light jaguar should return to his jungle. Melquiades and Alejandro, The hunters, They had ill and believed that the jaguar had possessed his spirit. No one ever to say what they had not to be that their soul was away. The animal had to return.
“I and a partner went to the United States and had to bring a location necklace that placed the animal's neck on the neck. Almost as two illegal we managed to put the device to Mexico with the help of friends at the borders ”, Dr. Alfonso Aquino has, One of the greatest experts and defenders of the Jaguar.
The cat was charged in a helicopter that took him back to the jungle while the shamans made a ritual to return the order of things: The feline returned to his mountains and the souls of the men also returned to their bodies. "You have to go very far, Where have you always been. We are not going to punish or kill you, But go away. Selva, River and forest we give you your animal ", The elders prayed.
Selva, River and forest we give you your animal
The jaguar was later taken with its box to the lost area of ??the jungle where it was captured under the gaze of a few men. The lid was opened. It took a few seconds to leave and when he did it lost quickly among the thick jungle. He returned home.
And something was known after? “The collar that we placed stopped monitoring its position due to a problem of lack of payment of the service. When we activated it again, he gave some signs and one already definitive and still. We went there and found their abandoned and nibble collar. We don't know what happened. We believe for the bites that perhaps a female helped him to tear him out, But it may have been furtively hunted. It has not been seen again ", Aquino answers.
Disappeared, In his temple, In his jungle. The grandfather Jaguar, Half man and half animal, He went to the lands that belong to him. And which one said the elders that was their message? "That the jaguar must live in the jungle in freedom".
