Who we are

Toj + Tijax: The Ritual of Myth Making is a queer, diasporic Indigenous Maya-led praxis of reconnection and healing that weaves together ceremony, ritual, creative making, and community care. Anchored in the nawales (q’ij awech) Toj—reciprocity, sacred fire—and Tijax—obsidian blade, healing—Toj + Tijax becomes a living container where we tend to the ancestral hearth while severing colonial cords, opening pathways to co-create liberated futures. Through altar installations, curated exhibitions, nawal-aligned workshops, and pop-up botánicas, Toj + Tijax invites 2STQBIPOC relatives—and all Indigenous kin—to reclaim ritual as an everyday technology of collective liberation. This collaborative work is held by KC Canton, spiritual herbalist and student of death & grief, and mariana Aq’ab’al moscoso, tradition-based multidisciplinary artist, & cultural strategist.