Speaking Truth
The obligation to speak honestly and avoid deception.
Truth-telling is not just a virtue but an obligation. Deception harms the web of relationships that sustains community. Those known for truthfulness are trusted and consulted; liars lose standing and bring misfortune on themselves.
Let your word be as solid as stone; what is said is done.
Truth-telling maintains the trust on which community cooperation depends.
Living Tradition
Written about in
- What Maya wisdom says about good and evil
Deception is treated as damage to the web that holds a community together. The liar loses standing, and that loss is the consequence.