Cipitio is the most popular character of salvadorean mythology.

Cipitio is a legendary character of Salvadoran (El Salvador, Central America) folklore. He is generally portrayed as a 10 year old boy with a large belly. His name is taken from the nahuat (Salvadoran dialect derived from nahuatl) word for child: "Cipit" or "Cipote". Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x756, 130 KB)El cipitio of El Salvador File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x756, 130 KB)El cipitio of El Salvador File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... Nahuatl is a native language of central Mexico. ...

According to the legend, he is the son of a forbidden romance of a native woman called Sihuehuet, or more commonly known as La Sihuanaba, and the god Tlaloc. Her father, after knowing of this romance casted a evil spell over the woman and her son. Cipitio was condemned to live for ever as a 10 year old boy with his feet in backward position, as a reminder of the wicked love of his mother. Stories are told of farmers that come to their fields and find the footsteps of a boy, but eventually get lost following them because, not knowing that Cipitio has his feet backwards, they follow them in the wrong direction. Sihuanaba is a legendary character of Salvadoran (El Salvador, Central America) folklore. ... Tlaloc, as depicted in the Magliabechi Codex Tlaloc was, in Aztec mythology, the god of rain and fertility. ...

Other characteristics of Cipitio are that he likes to eat ashes, throws pebbles to beautiful ladies and likes to eat an endemic variety of banana that Salvadorans call "Guineo Majoncho". Species Hybrid origin; see text A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantains. ...