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    29 days ago

    Interesting factoid: X-box (hyphenated) comes from the ancient Mayan Xboox where “X” is the femenine article and “boox” the noun meaning black/dark, literally meaning “The dark one”.

    The town got its name after a local legend that stated that a dark woman figure appeared by the town’s water well.

    Source: Historia de Yucatán. Diego López de Cogolludo. 2024. ISBN 8498166403