Santa Maria de Jesus Cakchiquel in Guatemala

The Santa Maria de Jesus Cakchiquel have only been reported in Guatemala
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Introduction / History

The Kaqchikel (local spelling) are located at the foot of the volcano called Agua (Volcan de Agua). The volcano, Agua, is located directly South of Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. The Kaqchikel name of Santa Maria de Jesus is Junapu, meaning "one volcano" because they lie at the base of Agua. Kaqchikel Maya are one of many Maya ethnic people groups, each are distinctive based on their language and other factors despite many shared beliefs.


What Are Their Lives Like?

Many Kaqchikel Maya people of Santa Maria de Jesus ride the 40 minute bus ride to Antigua, Guatemala where the job opportunities are more open due to the high level of tourist activity in Antigua. These Kaqchikeles sell artisan products such as woven fabrics, jewelry, scarves, paintings on the streets of Antigua and/or in the artisan market in the West part of Antigua. There are many others, like most Maya, who are in agriculture: coffee and chocolate are big agricultural cash crops in the Guatemalan highlands near Antigua.

The family structure is such that the man is the main financial provider and oftentimes wears "modern" clothing to appeal to employers while the woman is the main homemaker. She cooks, cleans, cares for the children, weaves the clothing, and sometimes sells additional crafts or tortillas. It is also the Kaqchikel Maya woman's role within the market to sell the produce or the craft and typically the man's role to farm and transport the produce. She is almost always seen in traditional clothing, or traje, as well as the children. The children grow up speaking Kaqchikel in the home with Spanish being taught in the education system and used outside of the town and as such, Kaqchikel is their primary language, Spanish is their secondary. Most Maya children are minimally educated in a formal setting but almost always learn the craft or trade of their parents, depending on gender.


What Are Their Beliefs?

They have a heavy influence on ancestor worship and themes of rebirth and renewal permeate their worldview. They believe in the interwoven cycles of nature or agricultural cycles, time, and life cycles that they can't be separated. They cling to ritualistic offerings to gods in the forms of Catholic saints, with the understanding that they don't necessarily distinguish Catholicism in its true form from the syncretic Catholicism that has heavy Maya beliefs.


Prayer Points

The Kaqchikel people need prayers more than anything that they would know the true, unadulterated JESUS of the Bible and truly who He is. I am unaware of the religious material available to them in their language but that certainly does not mean that there are no materials available. I am doubtful that the Bible has been fully translated and distributed to the Kaqchikel people of Santa Maria de Jesus primarily because like most Maya peoples and languages, Kaqchikel is an oral language and many cannot read the language on paper. It has been formulated into an oral language for the purposes of the Spanish in 1500s and for people like myself who are learning the language. There are programs and pushes for the Kaqchikel people to learn how to read and write within their own language, but most cannot. Even if Kaqchikel has been written down there are so many variants of spelling due to it being an oral language and each person spelling words how they speak the language, etc. which obviously poses a difficulty in a written Bible for this people.


Scripture Prayers for the Cakchiquel, Santa Maria de Jesus in Guatemala.


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People Name General Cakchiquel, Santa Maria de Jesus
People Name in Country Cakchiquel, Santa Maria de Jesus
Natural Name Santa Maria de Jesus Cakchiquel
Pronunciation SAHN-tah mah-DEE-ah day hay-SOOS cok-chee-KEL
Alternate Names Santa Maria Cakchiquel
Population this Country 38,000
Population all Countries 38,000
Total Countries 1
Indigenous Yes
Progress Scale 4
Unreached No
Frontier People Group No
Pioneer Workers Needed
People ID 14739
ROP3 Code 108669
ROP25 Code 301558
ROP25 Name Cakchiquel
Country Guatemala
Region America, Latin
Continent North America
10/40 Window No
National Bible Society Website
Persecution Rank Not ranked
Country Guatemala
Region America, Latin
Continent North America
10/40 Window No
National Bible Society Website
Persecution Rank Not ranked

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Primary Religion: Christianity
Major Religion Percent
Buddhism
0.00 %
Christianity  (Evangelical 9.00 %)
97.00 %
Ethnic Religions
3.00 %
Hinduism
0.00 %
Islam
0.00 %
Non-Religious
0.00 %
Other / Small
0.00 %
Unknown
0.00 %
Primary Language Kaqchikel
Language Code cak   Ethnologue Listing
Language Written Yes   ScriptSource Listing
Total Languages 2
Secondary Languages
Spanish
Primary Language Kaqchikel
Language Code cak   Ethnologue Listing
Total Languages 2
Secondary Languages
  Spanish
People Groups Speaking Kaqchikel

Primary Language:  Kaqchikel

Bible Translation Status  (Years)
Bible-Portions Yes  (1902-1998)
Bible-New Testament Yes  (1931–2015)
Bible-Complete Yes  (2003)
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Audio Recordings Audio Bible teaching Global Recordings Network
Film / Video Jesus Film: view in Kaqchikel Jesus Film Project
Film / Video LUMO film of Gospels Bible Media Group/LUMO
Film / Video Magdalena video Jesus Film Project
Film / Video My Last Day video, anime Jesus Film Project
Film / Video Story of Jesus for Children Jesus Film Project
Film / Video The Hope Video Mars Hill Media
Film / Video World Christian Videos World Christian Videos
General Faith Comes By Hearing - Bible in text or audio or video Faith Comes by Hearing
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General YouVersion Bible versions in text and/or audio YouVersion Bibles
Mobile App Android Bible app: Kaqchikel YouVersion Bibles
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