Location
Guatemala, Quiche Department, Municipality of Chajul, Ilom
The name/names of the sacred site
Vi´Kooma
Description
The view on Ixil Maya community of Ilom (Ilamb´al, The Place of Rest) and Vi´Kooma one of the sacred mountains representing four cardinal points, associated to Day Iq´ in the Maya Calendar and the guardian of the North. Ilom is one of the Indigenous Communities that suffered dissastrous repressions in the 80. during the Guatemalan Civil War, including a massacre where 85 persons were executed by the military and all of the remaining population displaced. After the War, numerous hydroelectric projects had been installed in the Ixil Region, affecting the Sacred Landscape of the Ixil Maya People.
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