Word: toads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women of the Fali tribe, says Lebeuf, the toad represents the divine messenger who brought all wisdom from God to the first woman, the Fali Eve. The toad asked the woman to put plugs into her lips, shape her mouth like the wide palate of the toad, thus acquiring some of the toad's own strength and wisdom. No aids to beauty, the plugs were truly reli gious objects, passed on from mother to daughter. As told by women of the Sare tribe, however, the legend differs slightly. They believe that the first woman climbed down from heaven...
...steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
Hill of the Toad. Flores duly reported his find, but nothing was done until two novice archeologists, Robin Mills and Morgan Smith of Florida, heard about it in Oaxaca City. By airplane, jeep and saddle horse, Mills and Smith worked their way to roadless Rio Grande, where proud villagers showed them the stone. Part of the stone was covered with hieroglyphics, and five square miles of ground around it was full of exciting traces of an ancient civilization...
That was not all. Led by a guide provided by Rio Grande's Mayor Adalberto Cuevas, the young archeologists tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone...
...even more exciting archeologically. Bernal had never seen anything like them. Only the big square symbol on the two figures was familiar to him. It has been found elsewhere in Mexico, in ruins as old as the 5th century. Bernal believes that further digging on the Hill of the Toad may tell what people lived in the secluded Rio Grande region before the Zapotecs came...