ABOUT ME

I was born in San Jeronimo Tlacochahuaya, a small community of Zapotec origin located in the Valley of Oaxaca. Its name in Zapotec is "Zunni".

Tlacochahuaya (in Nahuatl tongue) means "Wet place" or "In the middle of the swamp"; where many years ago there was a very humid and semi swampy area that I understand has given it that name.
Zunni means "Place of the people who sow (cultivate)" or some have given it the meaning of "Place of organs (cactus)", however with the reference of it´s name in Nahuatl I personally believe that it is more logical the relation of agriculture with a humid area conducive to it.

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I think that one will always be from the place where we was born, from a part of the earth, the same that saw us being born and adapting to the world; just as a plant does when it germinates within it.

That is why I am Bën Zunni "people of the Zunni town".

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My family is Zapotec and a speaker of the mother tongue, which was not taught to us as our first language, but which I learned out of curiosity, although not in it´s entirety. I grew up in the midst of a culture based on the worldview of the Zapotec culture and common in the ancestral cultures of the Anahuac and the world, whose history is also part of each of us and therefore is my greatest source of inspiration and analysis.

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