e "Sweeper of the Path" because it appears before the sun as the morning star. The moon is "Our Holy Mother" and the stars are the light of night like candles that light the sky when the sun is passing by the Lower World and making the oceans boil so the dwarves must wear mud hats to protect themselves.
             In the Zinacanteco world the geography is sacred and every mountain, cave, waterhole, and all of nature has a spiritual meaning or is passage to a god. Their lives are centered around their spirituality and they do not dare upset the gods. The mountains and hills surrounding Zinacanteco settlements represent the homes of their ancestors. They are imagined to be old Zinacantecos that were ordered to live inside the mountains by the Four-Corner Gods. They call these homes "Fathers-Mothers". Totilme'il is literally translated as "Sir Father-Madam Mother". All of Zinacanteco terms and beliefs surround the theory involving the link between the two genders in a reproductive pair. One cannot exist without the other and both are equally as important although having different duties. The Zinacanteco people try to model their behavior and their ways of life to what their ancestors are believed to be doing inside the mountain. In addition to being role models, the ancestors are believed to be the overseers of the humans and when they are displeased the person will be punished.
             The next important deity is the Earth Owner. The Zinacanteco people cannot use any part of the earth or any product of nature without an offering ceremony to the earth owner. Any place in the earth that has an opening or ch'en is a way of communicating with the Earth Owner. The earth owner also controls the lightening, thunder, and the clouds from which the rain comes from to make the earth grow.
             Since the Spanish Conquest the Zinacantecos have Saints who are represented in their churches in the form of wooden or plaster images, or wooden crosses. Their a...