The Lost Quetzals

05/09/2024

Today September 5th is National Quetzal Day in Guatemala. Where all of Guatemala celebrates it's nation's bird the Quetzal. The Quetzal is sacred bird and a symbol for freedom to Guatemala's indigenous people. This is due to the fact that the Quetzal cannot be domesticated and dies if kept in captivity. It only thrives in its natural habitat and wild. There is a Maya story on how the Quetzal got it's red belly. It happened when a K'iche king Tecun Uman was slain in battle, a Quetzal bird flew down to him as he was dying. The blood from the Maya king soaked the bird's feathers a bright red where it still seen today. It is also believed to be the feathered serpent god of wind kukulkan in disguise by the Mayas. Imagery of the bird can be found in hieroglyphics and in the textiles of the Guatemalan people. The feathers of the Quetzal once were used to decorate headdress of Maya royals and still used today.

03/09/2024

Sharing stories and reconnecting with our heritage.

01/09/2024

30/08/2024

While most communities have changed to the modern calendar, some still use the Maya Tz'olkin calendar cycle. Tz'olkin calendar cycle is the most confusing and complex day calendar with a total of 18,980 days, 20 Nawales, 20 day glyphs (kins), 13 numbers, 260 days(Tz'olkin), 13 months (unial), and 365 days in a year (Haab').
19 kins cycles (1 unial), after 18 cycles of unials of 20 kins makes up a (tun), 20 tuns (katun), and takes 20 Katuns to end. After 20 Katuns a Bak'tun is celebrated by every community. Although while complex it is also very accurate and can be used to tell seasonal changes by the communities.

(If you made it this far understanding, congratulations.) The Maya calendar was also used to name people and tell prophecies. The days were written with a day glyph, galactic number, Nawal, and number of the month with glyph.

13/08/2024

Yes TLQ has official merch for those of you that have been asking, here is the link!

Buy The Lost Quetzals Merch merchandise from The lost quetzals. Featuring Charcoal Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA.

01/08/2024

For any adoptees interested in learning more about the Guatemalan and Maya culture/history. I recommend our group's local historian enthusiast Jeremiah Purdy. He makes video edits on his own tiktok account about the Guatemalan Civil War, Maya culture, and Maya history/mythology. His tiktok username is Chelemiha05, so if you're interested or have tiktok. Go check out his channel, he posts something new every day.

26/07/2024

🇬🇹✨️Huge Announcement!!✨️🇬🇹

Head over to our YouTube to see the full video Announcement!

The Official Announcement of The Lost Quetzals Organization & Newly Elected Board!

28/06/2024

05/05/2024

Coming at y’all!! Tonight is a huge vote, I need you, your friends, your friends friends, voting on all platforms, 30 votes total :-)))) VOTE #4 if you want me in top 5 :-))) I would be honored to keep repping so many ppl if yall want me to

03/05/2024

Sending love to all my fellow Guatemalan Adoptees today who are at the AWGR 5th Annual Conference - Chicago !! 💙🤍💙 hope you all have a wonderful time & it was so great to meet you all virtually as well. 🫶🏽🇬🇹

03/05/2024

✨️🇬🇹 I never imagined my podcast would touch so many or mean so much to me. My hope was for it to reach other Guatemalan adoptees & maybe a few others who wanted to gain knowledge about Guatemalan adoptee journeys from the stories we share via the Poscast.

About a week ago, I got a message from a magazine editorial director/writer of SoyMigrante.com in Guatemala. He wanted an interview with me!

I'm so honored that my article was published in this Guatemalan magazine, and I'm super excited for my podcast to reach other Guatemaltecos, wanting to hear more of Guatemalteco adoptee voices 🥰 🇬🇹

The article also touches on my work as an artist, photographer, & doula. ☺️

You can read the article here...

Vitalina "Liv" Sánchez es migrante porque nació en Guatemala; fue adoptada y llevada a EE.UU.; ahora busca a más guatemaltecos adoptados.

26/04/2024

✨️🇬🇹 I never imagined my podcast would touch so many, or mean so much to me. My hope was for it to reach other Guatemalan adoptees & maybe a few others who wanted to gain knowledge about Guatemalan adoptee journeys from the stories we share via the Poscast.

About a week ago I got a message from a magazine editorial director/writer of SoyMigrante.com in Guatemala. He wanted an interview with me!

I'm so honored that my article was published in this Guatemalan magazine & super excited for my podcast to reach other Guatemaltecos wanting to hear more of Guatemalteco adoptee voices 🥰 🇬🇹

The article also touches on my work as an artist, photographer, & doula. ☺️

You can read the article here...

https://soymigrante.com/historia-vitalina-sanchez-adoptada-estados-unidos-guatemala/

25/03/2024

Listen to Julia Gagnons podcast episode here to get to know her better! 😊🫶🏽🇬🇹
Julia Gagnon



https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xz4XVaHzl3AHLYf2JoPPw?si=9jfDBH2YT06LSijib1-HmA

23/03/2024

I never imagined my silly idea of starting a podcast for Guatemalan Adoptees would turn into anything. I was convinced no one would listen or be interested in being interviewed by me, but I was so surprised to find out I was completely wrong. I feel privileged to have so many adoptees reach out to me wanting to be on my podcast. I never imagined how moving this journey would be or how exciting it is getting to know all of you other Guatemalan adoptees. We have created a special, unique family of our own, and I'm so grateful for all the support and love you all have for me and the podcast. 🫶🏽

I'm so excited to say that I will be continuing this and growing this platform I've created into something even bigger for all of us.
I absolutely love getting to know you all and your beautiful stories, and I can't wait to show you all what's coming for us with this!

I couldn't have done any of this any of this without the loving support of my darling husband. He believed in me before anyone and has been absolutely incredible in encouraging me along the way. 🥰 I love you so much honey! Thank you for believing in me. 💖

Thank you all so much!
I couldn't have done this without all of you adoptees wanting to be on the podcast and those who tune in as well. 🫶🏽🇬🇹

-Liv

09/03/2024

Tonight's episode on The Lost Quetzals features Julia Gagnon! This interview was so special, and we had a blast! Loved getting to know this beautiful soul 💕 Julia Gagnon and I gained a long-lost sister 😉🫶🏽🇬🇹 If you haven't followed her yet, she is also an incredible singer. Go check her out & listen and share her podcast!

Also, root for her on American Idol!
American Idol
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05/03/2024

✨️My merch order came in today!🇬🇹

This color is called Paragon with our "The Lost Quetzals" logo on it! Beautiful artwork created by Guatemalan Adoptee .link.artistry
Thank you, Cristina, for this beautiful art for our special podcast & platforms. 🥰🫶🏽🇬🇹
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