- Mexico’s president shared a photograph on social media of what he stated was an elf-like woodland creature.
- “Every part is mystical,” he wrote together with the photograph.
- His broadly considered tweet sparked confused and mocking responses.
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Mexico’s president has been mocked on social media after he shared a photograph of what he described as a sighting of a legendary woodland determine.
The picture shared by Andrés Manuel López Obrador seems to indicate a darkish creature with vivid white hair and eyes sitting in a tree.
López Obrador stated the photograph “was taken three days in the past by an engineer” and seems to be an “aluxe,” which is a sort of small elf-like mythological creature in Mayan mythology.
“Every part is mystical,” he concluded.
Les comparto dos fotos de nuestra supervisión a las obras del Tren Maya: una, tomada por un ingeniero hace tres dÃas, al parecer de un aluxe; otra, de Diego Prieto de una espléndida escultura prehispánica en Ek Balam. Todo es mÃstico. pic.twitter.com/Tr5OP2EqmU
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) February 25, 2023
The mythical aluxes, just like the elves and fairies of European folklore, are mischievous beings that inhabit forests and fields and generally play methods on people, in keeping with the beliefs of some Mayan folks from the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala.
Journalist Mauricio Schwarz responded to the tweet to debunk the sighting, telling the president that the picture has truly circulated on social media since February 2021.
“If you happen to imagine it, you’re silly. If you recognize you’re mendacity, you’re malicious.” Schwarz wrote.
López Obrador, who has been president since 2018, has beforehand expressed an curiosity in and respect for indigenous cultures.
The tweet unfold broadly in Mexico, being considered over three million occasions on the time of writing and sparking confused and mocking responses.
