Case file · Apparition / miracle
The talking stones of Tzajalhemel, Chiapas
In December 1867 a Tzotzil girl near San Juan Chamula found stones that were said to speak; led by Pedro Díaz Cuzcat, a cult grew around them and in 1869 became a Maya uprising.
1867 CE · 16.79, -92.69 · status: account
The account
Officials saw the market and shrine at Tzajalhemel as a threat and arrested the leaders, setting off violence. A famous story that the movement crucified a boy on Good Friday 1868 comes from an account written two decades later; historian Jan Rus has argued it is propaganda.