Under its fresh leaves, the animals were pleased to go to rest and to talk peacefully because, at that time, all the animals lived together and spoke the same language. They were complaining, especially the lion, the deer, the crocodile, the snake, the elephant and the turtle, about the wickedness of men and they said that they suffered because of them.

One day, all of the animals decided to talk with "Pitao", the god who protected the animals. He listened very carefully to the problems of his subjects and he thought it over for a short time and said: "This is the problem. The winner in the infinite food chain is the strongest and, in this case, men, with their intelligence can capture you, and you don't know how to defend the freedom that nature gives you."

But, Lord, we don't have their weapons to defend ourselves, the animals said. "But you have your bodies and the environment as weapons. Now, go home because it's late and you have already listened to my advice. Use your own strength to defend yourselves and be nimble, clever and alert to any danger."

The tree's action made the god 'Xoco", protector of the hunt, angry and he turned the animals into the trunk of the tree. They would be his religious offering. And with the animals' lives the tree was fed life and this supply helped it to live for many centuries. The heads of the animals were drawn on the trunk for eternity.

The god "Pitao" took pity on them and he decided to talk with the god, "Xoco". This god refused to give this gift to the animals because the tree had taken his offering and with all his anger he wanted to punish the god, "Pitao" because the tree was his responsibility.

"Since you love the most uncommon animals, I will kill them," "Xoco'" said; he pointed with his finger and out shot a lot of little needles. They flew all over the town and they were buried in the necks of the animals and killed them immediately. The god, "Pitao", became so indignant that he made the sun hotter so that all kinds of flora were dried up because he said that they were no longer helpful for the extinct animals.

The god, "Pitao" stopped the strong sunbeams and said: "Give me all the animals that men need and you and I will be happy." And in this way he returned the dog, the cow, the sheep, the cattle, and the hens to the men, but there was something left: the climate was not good, and the gods agreed to give a steppe climate to this land.

And not far from there, people see a very beautiful and luminous tree. Yes, it was our tree! It survived thanks to the underground river. The god, "xoco' thought that this was divine and said: "I don't know how I hesitated to give a gift to this tree of our beautiful garden." And with these words, magically, the tree was surrounded by people. Yes, the gift was human protection! and now and forever, people will protect it.

• T: you (Tu')
• U: will unite (Uniras)
• L: the (Los)
• E: enemies (Enemigos)