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Around 1841 the , the Creole population of the Yucatan peninsula, broke with Mexico. The Mayan population soon rose up against their Creole overlords, with a band of insurgents taking refuge around a small spring at Chan Santa Cruz, (“the Little Sacred Cross”), where a mahogany tree grew at the edge of a cave. The tree’s trunk bore several small carved crosses. At least one of them appeared to produce sounds. The Cult of the Talking Cross was born, which inspired the Mayans to at least 50 years of resistance, first against the and then the United Mexican States. The bizarre