15 August 2025 - Friday The Fire That Remembers the Land - Part 1 A Ceremony of Perception, Memory, and Renewal within Kimoon K’uxlaal

15 August 2025 - Friday

The Fire That Remembers the Land - Part 1

A Ceremony of Perception, Memory,

and Renewal within Kimoon K’uxlaal

“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”

A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands

from the Earth Remembers Series

The Fire That Remembers the Land

A Ceremonial Opening

Today, the story of

“The Fire That Remembers the Land”

will be center stage

for humanity’s story

of what we perceive

everywhere around us

as we travel

or perceive Earth’s mystery.

But the story we are told,

and experience with Fire as the destroyer,

was not our original human story

that we experienced

throughout our humanity.

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These next few days

I will begin to share

an overview,

an alternative perspective,

of my personal story

around “The Fire That Remembers the Land”

as an Indigenous elder

of the Tz’utujiil Maya.

Until a week ago,

I never read much Indigenous history around fire —

except a sentence or two,

here and there.

Recently, I read a book:

When It All Burns by Jordon Thomas (2025) —

Fighting Fire in a Transformed World.

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Jordon wanted to write

about climate change and wildfires.

*“He quickly realized, however,

that it wouldn’t be accurate

to write about this topic

without chronicling the historical factors

that shaped the landscapes

climate change now disrupts.

This history includes the ways

Indigenous people in California used —

as many continue to use —

fire to shape the land.

It also includes the violent processes

by and through which governments

have attempted to take the use of fire

away from Indigenous people through time.”*

— Author Notes.

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This was the first time

I read about the Indigenous Ways

around Fire and Land

that had a parallel story

to my own experience

that I write about

in my words:

“The Fire That Remembers the Land.”

His story and research

he describes so clearly

in supporting his own story —

as my personal experiences

and communications I have been living

support my words,

experiences,

and stories.

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In my community,

we have lost much of the original story

that was anchored

in the wisdom of wholeness

behind the living relationship

of fire and land.

But with my initiations into Fire,

and eventually

my initiation as the Nab’eysiil

of the Bundle of the Martin,

I have spent countless amounts of time

this last decade

in contact with

and communication with

the variety of the Bundle of the Martin subtle forces

as weaved within

the subtle forces of the land.

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This way of living life

has emerged as the ways of living

that has emerged into my personal experiences

around the ceremonies

and the ways of living with Fire and Land

through Ceremony of Perception, Memory, and Renewal.

All of these experiences

emerge within the overview way of:

Kimoon K’uxlaal —

the weaving of the many

emerging into the One Heart.

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Part of this weaving of the many

focuses upon the truth

that Fire and Land have shown me:

Pyrodiversity is weaved within biodiversity.

The many forms of fire

nourish the many forms of life.

Pyrodiversity refers to the variation in fire regimes

(frequency, intensity, size, and other characteristics)

and their ecological effects

across a landscape over time.

It’s an emerging concept in fire ecology,

with the core idea being

that landscapes with high pyrodiversity —

meaning a greater range of fire types and severities —

tend to support higher biodiversity.

My story is so parallel

to Jordon’s story

that he brings forward

in his book and interviews.

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I write about the various voices

within my own head

that I live with all the time

when I am faced directly —

or in the news and stories of others —

around Fire and Land.

Over these years

I have found an inner kindness

within my heart

for all the voices

that swirl around within my head —

but also the journey I travel each time,

inwardly,

to experience the clarity I need

to emerge with the Ceremonies

around Fire and Land,

along with all the various forms

of Nature’s creation with weather

and all that we bundle around

the concept of climate change.

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These perceptions

I write up in these next few days

are the journey I am always traveling within me

as the Nab’eysiil,

to find my clarity of Voice 3 within me,

so I may communicate in ceremony

with the forces of Nature and Weather.

I will share, in other writings later in the year,

my community experiences around Fire and Land,

and Rain, etc.

What I want to share here

in these blogs

is how to find

our own various voices within us —

so that we may participate

in new ways

within our living relationship with

Fire — Land — Water — Earth.

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