One day, while Quetzalcoatl was walking the earth, Rabbit and her friends found him tired and hungry. They stopped to help but Rabbit ended up badly hurt. Quetzalcoatl knows how to save her, but he needs some help.
Based upon a traditional legend blended with similar tales from the world over, this book tells the story of how Rabbit came to live on the Moon.
Bilingual Legends #421 is presented in both English & Nahuatl.
Over de auteur
Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz is a native speaker of Nahuatl, originally from Chicontepec, Veracruz, Mexico. He is an instructor in the Nahuatl language and culture summer programme at the University of Utah. He holds the position of director at IDIEZ (https://idiezmacehualli.org) where he directs projects for the revitalisation of Nahuan culture and language. He currently teaches at Brown University, where he is an associate professor. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of ‘Liberal Arts’ at the University of Warsaw.De la Cruz is part of the research team at the Getty Research Institute from 2017-2023. He is also the author and co-author of several monolingual books in Nahuatl, including ‘Cenyahtoc Cintli Tonacayo: Huahcapatl Huan Tlen Naman’ and ‘Tototatahhuan Ininixtlamatliz’. His main topics of study include indigenous methodologies, ceremonial practices of maize cultivation, and Nahua welfare concepts.