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Cochihza

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Khristine Gillard

Cochihza,”she awakens the sleeping one”, one saysabout the Cuicuitzcal swallow.Many words from the ancestors’ language arederived from the root cochi – to sleep. It expressesboth sleep and dream, but also lying down, dinner,subsistance, a cocoon built by caterpillars, eyelashes,leaving, yawning, making love to a woman,sleeping next to her, the place where one sleeps,waking up, pretending to sleep…Ometepe, the volcano island – Nicaragua. A landscapelike a sleeping body.The Ancients describe life in two movements: onelinear movement, like a walk; and one beat, emergingfrom the center. Each man adopts his own particularrythm at birth and keeps it for all his life. Withinthe encounter of the volcano’s community and theguardians of its memory, a story of a world unfolds, arelationship to the island comes through.

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