Ehuatlaltipac
Ehuatlaltipac is the name given by the Apoxtec and Maxcaltec people for the spirit of Kalmasa. Ehuatlaltipac is the emergent mind of the interplay of the lands, plants and creatures of Kalmasa as conceived by the Calmaxtec peoples. The telluran is primarily worshiped in the north. The southern Calmaxtec cultures recognize the spirit as powerful and primordial, but do not see it as an active being involved in their lives, turning more instead to the Teteo who they feel are more concerned with the lives of people.
The peasants of the Apoxtec and Maxcaltec are most in tune with the great telluran. Though the ritual varies between culture and village, the basic ritual involves making offerings of part of the harvest. The entire village travels deep into the forests beyond the cultivated fields. There the offering is deposited at the base of a tree. Then the elders of the village make cuts on their left cheek, left forearm and left calf with an obsidian blade, collect the blood and sprinkle it over the offering, leaving directly.
Some take their devotion to the spirit farther, seeking complete communion with the land. These people are known as the Xoxicohtli, or followers of the Green Path.
Ehuatlaltipac does not evince any coherent personality like a god. However those in tune with its mood through deep and continued connection can sense its contentment or displeasure. It does not grant boons to those it favors, so much as those who move with it enter its powerful currents and gain strength and luck through following its will.
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