La Leyenda de Quetzal

Simple Stories in Spanish

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🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This third season of Simple Stories in Spanish is focusing on legends. In the middle of the Guatemalan flag there is a beautiful green bird with a bright red chest and a long flowing tail. It is the quetzal, a symbol of liberty and a nahual, or spirit guide, of the Maya and Quiché people. Todays simple story explains one of the many legends surrounding this stunning bird. This legend repeats vocabulary such as “lucha” (fights), “cacique” (chieftain), “pecho” (chest), “guerreros” (warriors), a...

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0:00.0	Ola, and Bienrenides, this is a legenda, of simple stories in Spanish.
0:05.5	In the middle of the Guatemalan flag, there is a beautiful green bird with a bright red
0:11.2	chest and a long flowing tail.
0:14.7	It is the Ketsal, a symbol of liberty and a no one or spirit guide of the Maya and
0:21.0	Kiche people.
0:22.0	Today's simple story explains one of the many legends surrounding the stunning bird.
0:28.0	I hope you enjoy this retelling of the Leje of the ketsal.
0:34.0	In the jungla of Guatemala, there is a tribute that
0:38.0	chiche.
0:39.0	The chichees are personas fuertes.
0:42.0	Some persons intelligents. are persons
0:43.0	intelligents.
0:44.0	No who are persons
0:46.0	valientes.
0:48.0	The leaders are persons valiantes. The leader of the tribute is the case
0:52.0	He the case is a leader,
0:54.0	Bueno and Pondados.
0:56.0	At the tribut,
0:58.0	le just a much of your leader.
1:00.0	The casequé has not a jest a jesama ketsal.
1:05.0	Ketsal is a munchacho valiante,
1:08.0	is a gereero fuerte.
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