Frog of Stone

The toads have played a preponderant role in the peninsular Mayan culture because agriculture depends on rain and the toads help the peasants to invoke it. During the ceremony of the ch'a 'cháak that the peasants do after having planted in the months of May or June, to request rain to the watering gods, -chaako'ob in maya- some children who are located below the altar, they begin to imitate the toads to attract the rain. There are several kinds of toads -muuch in Mayan-, among them is the lek muuch, the woo 'muuch, or the muuch calf, each with a different song that is imitated by the children: lek leklek, woo'woo'woo' mee, mee, mee The toads live with the turtles in the caves and begin to sing when the land is dry. They say they are the musicians of the god Cháak.