Fox News reports “The president of Mexico is going viral after he posted a photo to social media that he said shows a mythical woodland elf of Mayan folklore.
“Everything is mystical,” Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in a Twitter post Saturday, accompanied by two photos, including one that the president says shows an “aluxe.”
According to traditional Mayan belief, “aluxes” are small, mischievous creatures that inhabit forests and fields and are prone to playing tricks on people, like hiding things. Some people leave small offerings to appease them.
Obrador has racked up nearly 5 million views on the post as of Sunday. One photo in the post shows a pre-Hispanic sculpture in Ek Balam, a Yucatec-Maya archaeological site, while the other photo shows a nighttime shot of what appears to be a creature in a tree with glowing eyes.
It does not appear the president was joking in his Twitter post.
The photo of the alleged aluxe was taken last week by an engineer at the construction site of a new train railway in the Yucatán Peninsula, according to Obrador. The railway is being constructed to transport tourists to and from popular destinations, including Mayan ruins.
The post has set off mockery and astonishment among some Twitter users, including speculation that the creature in the tree is actually just an animal.”
schlad
What’s funny is that people actually believe that they are aware of everything in existance and that nothing new can exist, you can fly over parts of the American Continent for a day and not break forest. It’s absurd really, the idea that in an infinite Universe you could know everything that exists, you can say for sure what does exist, but you can’t say for sure what doesn’t, it’s literally impossible to prove a negative.
I believe people when they tell me about their experiences, why wouldn’t I ?
Charles R
1996 when I worked in Rancho Mirage, Ca (Palm Springs area) some of my Mexican co workers had proof of the Chupacabre that was in a lot of news at that time. They wore T shirts of the Mexican President’s face on a body of a Chupacabre.
Linda B
The thing in the tree looks real to me, yikes!
Thanks, Wes!
Melanie Y
They are real and not from our planet. There’s millions of planets out there, billions. Do you think we’re the only planet that has life? No