MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president posted a photograph on his social media accounts Saturday displaying what he stated seemed to be a mythological woodland spirit much like an elf.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador didn’t appear to be joking when he posted the picture of an “Aluxe,” a mischievous woodland spirit in Mayan folklore.

López Obrador wrote the picture “was taken three days in the past by an engineer, it seems to be an aluxe,” including “all the things is mystical.”

The nighttime picture reveals a tree with a department forming what appears to be like like a halo of hair, and what could also be stars forming the determine’s eyes.

López Obrador has lengthy expressed reverence for indigenous cultures and beliefs. Engineers and staff are within the Yucatan peninsula, developing a vacationer practice that’s the president’s pet mission.

Based on conventional Mayan perception, “Aluxes” are small, mischievous creatures that inhabit forests and fields and are liable to enjoying tips on folks, like hiding issues. Some folks go away small choices to appease them.

The traditional Mayan civilization reached its top from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D. on the Yucatan Peninsula and in adjoining components of Central America, however the Mayas’ descendants proceed to reside on the peninsula.

Many proceed talking the Mayan language and carrying conventional clothes, whereas additionally conserving conventional mealss, crops, faith and medication practices, regardless of the conquest of the area by the Spanish between 1527 and 1546.