Sept. 12, 2024

Sisimite

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In this episode, Ayden shares the legend of a cave dwelling, giant ape-like creature with backwards feet that kidnaps women and babies in Honduras.

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of that said and done, let's go ahead and get

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into today's story, which is the legend of the Sisi Mete.

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Things had been very different since Valentina returned from the forest.

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It had been only a few weeks since she returned

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running into the streets of San Ignacio screaming about a giant,

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hairy monster with backwards feet. She had gone missing years ago.

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Her family gave up on searching for her because the

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Hunduran mountains can be a dangerous place for those who

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take a wrong turn or get injured. When she finally

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did return, everyone was shocked. First they thought they saw

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a ghost, Then, after hearing her frantic ramblings, they believed

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Valentina lost her mind after spending so long lost and alone.

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Although she was back home, she spent her days wandering

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the streets muttering about this monster, about mutant children. Everyone

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would gather and try to piece together the bits and

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pieces they could understand. Soon the story was that she

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was abducted by an ape like creature. They called it

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the Sisimete. She was forced to carry the Cisimetha's children,

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two of them, and when she finally did escape, he

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tossed their unnatural offspring into a river. Again, her neighbors

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took pity on Valentina and simply tried to keep her calm.

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Then the baby started disappearing. The first one, a six

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month old from the Mehia family, vanished overnight. The community

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did what they could to be more vigilant. All doors

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were locked and windows remained shut. But it happened again,

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this time to the Bignellas. Their eight month old was

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outside in the middle of the day with a group

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of children being watched by the eldest cousin. The kids

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were caught up in their games and baby Binneeda had

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just figured out how to crawl. Before they knew it,

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the baby was gone. At this point, the town was

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in a full on panic. The children were no longer

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to play outside, at least until everyone figured out who

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or what was taking their kids. But it still wasn't enough.

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Senora Zuniga ran into the streets screaming for help. Her baby,

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a newborn, was sleeping in a hammock in the hallway

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of the house while she cooked. When she walked by

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to check on him, the hammock was empty. No longer

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safe in their own homes, the people of San Ignacio

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knew they had to take action, but they were distraught

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and unable to think clearly. So the abductions continued until

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almost all the babies of San Ignacio were gone. This

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already small community was shrinking, one child at a time.

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Valentina silently watched the town become engulfed in a sense

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of dismay and trepidation. She knew who was responsible for

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the abductions, and she knew how to get his attention.

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Valentina took some of her clothes, a needle and thread,

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and made a doll. She made it the size of

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an infant, filled it with sand, and punctured a small

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hole in one of the doll's feet. She unlocked the doors,

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cracked open the windows, and spent the night at a

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relative's house. The next morning, Valentina returned home to find

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the doll missing. She grinned for the first time in

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years and ran out to gather whoever she could get

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to follow her back. At first, they were confused, convinced

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this was more of her typical ranting, until she met

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the sand. Look, it's a trail, it's hymn. The townspeople's

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eyes widened as they finally understood Valentina had set a trap,

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and it worked. A group of townspeople, including Valentina, ventured

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into the forest following the trail of sand. They came

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upon a clearing. When she halted them, she put a

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finger to her mouth, signaling them to remain quiet, and

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pointed to a cave. Although it felt like hours, it

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wasn't long before clattering and grunting reverberated from the cave's mouth.

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The group was at full attention. The hair on the

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back of their necks stood and chills covered their bodies

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as he came into view. The sisimthe exactly as Valentina

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had described him all those months ago, Towering over six

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feet tall, thin covered in long, dark fur, and backwards

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facing feet. The group devised a plant to kill the Sissima.

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They were going to start a fire at the cave's

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entrance and burn him alive. As the noise from the

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cave retreated deeper, they inched closer and closer, staying as

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silent as possible. Finally, at the opening of the Sisimetha's layer,

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they started a blaze and moved back. Very soon after,

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they could hear the agitated grunts and howls of the Sisimita.

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Their plan was working. While they cheered and held each other,

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but Indiina kept her eyes on the cave. She could

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feel that something was wrong. She saw a plume of

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smoke rise into the air. A couple yards north of

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where they celebrated. The cave had a second opening. She

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screamed and pointed. Horror melted the smiles off of their

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faces as the Sisimita rose from the other side of

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the cave, and ran into the forest. In a sense,

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their plan did work. San Ignacio saw no more abductions

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and the community finally new piece again. Townspeople regularly visit

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the cave and set a fire at its mouth as

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a warning to the cci Meta, and for now he

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keeps his distance. Welcome back, gl friends, once again, this

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was a Susto original. Applause, applause, Nobel Prizes, thank you.

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I'm kidding, but Suso original. I wrote this story with

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the help of Jeffrey. Thank you so much. We love you, Jeffrey,

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and I'm gonna go ahead and read through the notes

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that jeff has here before we go through all the

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links that both of us put together. You can find

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the direct links to these Google docs on Patreon dot

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com slash Sustra podcast. So let's go ahead and go

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through it. So we know that the cci meta is

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from Hodudas and actually the cave that is mentioned in

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the story, it is a real cave. It's the Ccimeta's

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cave or La cueva del Scimeta, I think is what

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they called it, and the notes heresay. The ccimeta is

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a tall ape slash human type creature. It is covered

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in long hair, it's feeder on backwards, which if you

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all have been listening for a while or if you

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remember a long time ago in I have it right here.

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In January of twenty twenty one, I did an episode

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on Lasiwappa, who is one of Susto's cryptid fems, and

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she also has backwards facing feet. I think the story

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with her is that if you hear her footsteps again

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all of these kinds of noises el Si Lechusa's there

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have been several featured on Susto that when you hear

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their noise, whatever it is, whether it's footsteps, whistling, crying, hooting, whatever,

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if you hear them further away, that means they're closer,

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And if you hear them closer, that means that they're

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further away. And so I think that also applied to

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La Siwappa. So just a cool connection right there. I

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think that might be something that deserves its own episode

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after how many times we've seen it on here. So

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let me know that's something y'all are interested in and

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I can try and put it together. This continues. It

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likes to kidnap, it being the cisimeat that likes to

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kidnap women and babies. In some legends, it will force

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the women to carry its children. This has some crossovers

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with of course lod or not because the women will flee,

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but instead of taking her children like Lyodorna did, the

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cisi meat that will drown the children to spite her

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for not taking them. So talk about a dead bee, dad, right.

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But also it's going to come up again in a

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bit and then we'll that'll kind of explain a little

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bit more. I guess the motive behind that, if there's any.

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The notes continue. In other variations, there are both male

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and female cisimeta who will kidnap babies cisi meat that

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are also associated with rain, slash thunder deities such as Chok,

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the Mayan god of rain, thunder, and lightning, sent to

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protect nature from over harvesting, also associated with Sutaka, a

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Mayan group of deities who have both rain and earth features.

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The Sutaka protect farmers and agricultural workers from wild animals,

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so they are reported to have pushed the ccimeat that

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to only exist in dense forests so that harmless humans

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are not damaged. It seems like the cci meta is

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meant to represent a balance with nature, whereas it only

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goes after people and their kind if the people start

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to encroach on the boundaries of nature. So kind of

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like an interesting take there, I do want to read

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about this. The Mayan deity chalk at Chaac. This says

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that Chalk is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder,

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and lightning. With his lightning acts, Chock strikes the clouds,

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causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chok corresponds to

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Laroque among the Aztecs. And this is a Wikipedia entry.

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I'm not sure if I mentioned that. In the mythology

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section of this, it says the rain deity is a

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patron of agriculture. A well known myth in which the

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Chalks or related rain lightning deities have an important role

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to play, is about the opening of the mountain in

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which the Mayis was hidden. In Sotzil mythology, the rain

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deity also figures as the father of newbile women representing

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mayis and vegetables. In some versions of the Gekchi myth

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of Sun and Moon, the rain deity Chok or Cloud

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is the brother of Sun. Together they may defeat their

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aged adoptive mother and her lover. Later, Chok commits adultery

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with his brother's wife and is dually punished. His tears

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of agony give origin to the Rain. Versions of this

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myth show the rain deity Chok in his warlike fury,

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pursuing the fleeing Sun and Moon and attacking them with

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his lightning bolts. In some mythologies, it is believed that

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water and clouds are formed within the earth in caves

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and sonotas and then carried into the sky by deities

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such as Chok. So maybe that's the connection between a

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Cisi Mita and Chok is that In some mythologies, like

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it says here, it's believed that water and clouds are

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formed within the earth in caves, So maybe that's the

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correlation between Cisimta and this deity. Classic period Maya's sources

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also suggest that Chok was the god who opened the

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mountain containing Mayis using his lightning acts. So also from

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Wikipedia is an entry and this says Cisimethal with an

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O instead of an E at the end, but it

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says in Belizean, so there's a connection to belize here

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and Honduran folklore. The Cisimito again alternatively called Cisimeta, Cimita, sukara,

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and itta Gayo, is a bipedal upright guerrilla like creature

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that possesses a head much like a human, with long

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hair or fur covering its body. It is also referred

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to as the Mexican Bigfoot, though it is also known

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in the neighboring countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. I have

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had several people ask me about covering bigfoot sightings from Mexico,

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so maybe this will kind of lead us into that,

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and I'm sure it'll probably be a lot about the Cisimtha,

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but there's got to be a lot of I guess,

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local legend around that. This description says the Cisimtha is

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believed to resemble a humanoid creature with black or dark

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brown fur, described as larger than an average person. It

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is said to have four fingers on each hand and

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no thumbs, eight like facial features, and backward facing feet

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with no damn. That's gotta be a stiff walk if

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he doesn't have knees. Its name differs between ethnic groups.

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For example, the Gattifuna call it SiZ Midu. The name

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has no true English translation, and it is believed to

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have come from the Nahuatl word mek in Honduras. According

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to the legends, it is believed that the Sisimta targets

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and kidnaps human women. It is believed that when a

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woman falls in love with the Sisimta, the Sisimta will

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claim her as his own and she will never be

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seen again. The Hunduran explorer and historian Hissus aguilada Bas,

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which I think Hissus Agladabas is like a really famous

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folklorist in or from Honduras, said that the Sisimta lives

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in the highest part of the Hunduran mountains, more specifically

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in the inaccessible caverns found there. Aguilad also explains that

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the sisi meat that feeds on the wild berries from

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the mountain, and that it is not a carnivorous being

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or hunter. However, it usually goes down to the village

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to kidnap women to take them to his cave. The

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union of Asisi Meta and a human is believed to

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produce ape men and then so tying it into Belize.

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As I mentioned earlier, it says in Belizean legend, the

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ceci Meta is said to also feast on humans so

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not just wild berries, but people. Furthermore, in Belizian societies,

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the belief is quote, if you are a man and

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you look at him in the eyes and escape, you

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will die within a month. If you are a woman

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and you look at him in the eyes and escape,

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your life will be prolonged. What's his beef is He's

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just like a supernatural alphamel and he's just going to

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kill other men. This continues. Tales of the Cecimeta were

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told in the camps by the Mahogany cutters of early

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days and are still passed along in villages like Ranchito

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and Hill Bank. The cci Meta is said to live

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in high forest areas and lives in caves and on

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rocky land in the Toledo District. Forest areas have decreased

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over the years because of agricultural development, and the Getchee

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believe that Toutraka, the thunder deities who protects them from

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the wild animals, has pulled the Cecimeata back into the

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few densely jungled areas remaining, so he is rarely seen today. Again,

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we have this idea of this forest dwelling creature that

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protects the nature. But this guy is kind of also

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insidious because he kidnaps women and babies, and depending on

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where you're from, you will die if you're a man

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and you look at him. The Cecimeata diet is believed

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to consist of raw meat and fruits. Again, this isn't

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belieze in under us. He's more of a what is

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it omnivore herbivore. There you go, And when feasting on

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human beings, he will tear the body into several pieces

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before devouring it. Though fierce and malevolent towards humans, he

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is afraid of water and dogs and will avoid them

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at all costs. See now this is an opposition of

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the Hunduran belief or the I guess the tie to

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the mind deities is that why would this rain this

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creature associated with like rain deities be afraid of water?

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I'm not sure? And also dogs, So good to know

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it says. The Cecimeta is believed to often assume human

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form in order to lure people out of villages with

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the purpose of killing them. Because of this, he is

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sometimes confused with Stabe or Layona. On Sundays and religious

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holidays such as Good Friday, Girhojans the devil happen on

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a good Friday, they say. The Cisimeta is believed to

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prey on hunters and other people who straight into the bushes.

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He follows human footprints, with its main purpose being either

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to kill its victims or to rip off their thumbs. Oh.

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The Cisimeta is also believed to attack men who are

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killing animals needlessly or destroying the forest. See that we love.

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That is king behavior. Keep it up, Cecimeta if that's

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what you're doing. The next piece of notes that Jeff

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has here is what I actually kind of based my

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own story of This is from X like the the

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letter x ploor Onduras dot com. This entry is called

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lequeva cimite and this says the Cisimeta cave is a

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peculiar cave located in the community of San Ignacio, which

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is a municipality of Gamasca, a department of in Theia Buca.

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And again this is in Honduras. According to stories from

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the community's ancient inhabitants, the cave was inhabited by a

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man or a kind of giant who ate children. This

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terrifying being that inhabited was associated with the Ccimeta which

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is why they called it the cave of Ccimete. So

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this says this being, and again this was It looks

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like this was translated from Spanish to English. In English,

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it says that this being was associated with the Cisimeta.

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It could also be that it is the Cisimeta. This continues,

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in fact, the Cisimeta cave does exist, and that there's

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a picture here that, of course I will be posting.

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And so the legend here says what is said to

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have happened in the community of Kamasca left its history

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marked forever. It was a quiet and sparsely populated community,

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so everyone quickly realized what was happening. One day, a

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mother became desperate when she noticed that her baby had disappeared,

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and no matter how hard they looked for him, the

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baby never appeared, which caused the entire town to panic.

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As the days went by, another baby, who was sleeping

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peacefully in a hammock in the hallway of his house,

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also disappeared while his mother was in the kitchen making lunch.

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That was in my story. This continues. While some mothers

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continue to search for their babies, it was the turn

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of the others. The tragedy was repeated until almost all

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babies in the town had disappeared. This abominable event had

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the town's inhabitants baffled since no one had any idea

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what was happening with the sudden disappearance of the babies.

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So this continues. There's this plotline that I also included

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in my story of the trap that was set, and

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here it says it was a desperate mother who lost

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her baby set this trap. She made the figure of

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a baby, filled it with ashes. In this story, she

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kind of left it out like unattended for the cecmedia

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to come and snag it. So her and other villagers

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followed the trail of ashes. It took them to a

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mysterious cave located at the highest point of the village.

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It says here it describes them waiting and they see

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the ceci meet the tall, thin creature with backwards facing feet.

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When they saw it, they were terrified, and then they

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devised the plant to set fire to the cave so

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that the creature would burn to death inside. And then

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here again it says, however, when the cisi meta felt

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the fire, it came out from the top of the

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cave After this, peace returned to the community, but no

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one was able to forget what happened. Since the babies

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never reappeared. The case still exists, but they never heard

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from the strange, creepy creature again. Again, that story is

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what I based mine on. So more from the notes here.

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This is from oocities dot org and this is just

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titled the Mysteries of on Buddhas by Bablo Vier Rubia Mausol.

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The notes that we have here says they're just excerpts

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from this source because it's a it's a pretty robust page,

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a lot of text. But the notes that Jeff pulled

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from that say, my grandfather told me that he ran

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into the Cisimta around nineteen twelve up there on Pico Bonito.

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It walked like a man, had a very hairy body

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and was very tall, said Don Manuel Mechilla. Oh, I

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didn't even notice that I used that name. I just

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kind of chose it randomly. And huh interesting, interesting, spooky,

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said by Don Manuel Mechilla, an octogenarian living in the

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village of Laognon, scant kilometers from La Seva. Also, I

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had to look this up. An octogenarian is someone who

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is in their like eighties eighties Yeah octo eight. His

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shaky hand pointed toward the mountains robed in their thick foliage.

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But what was the sisimta really? Much like its colder

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relatives such as the Tibetaneti or the Sasquatch of the

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US and Canadian Pacific Coast, the sisimta is another such

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creature which can appear out of nowhere and vanish in

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the same way. According to jus Agular Baz, one of

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Honduras's most renowned folklorists, Again, what's that name? The sisimita

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or Itakayo wanders the high mountain ranges and lives in

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dank caverns, feeding on wild fruit. In the same way

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