El Cipitío El Cipitillo is the son of La Siguanava or Sihuet who was the Moon Goddess.

The Cipitilo is a well-known character in the folklore and legends of El Salvador. He is a

boy with white skin and a very big stomach and wears a very large hat on his head. When
he appears at night he behaves like a sarcastic spirit, he laughs happily, and dances around
his victims and always leaves little footprints on the paths and places he walks. The Cipitío
or Cipitillo, was originally called Cipit. He comes from a religious story from pre-
Columbian times, narrating his family tree and the reasons why he was punished along with
his mother. He has extremely peculiar clothing and customs; He is also credited with a
variety of abilities, faculties, and supernatural powers that, without prejudice to anyone, he
uses for amusement. La Siguanava and El Cipitillo are important characters of Salvadoran
culture, taking place as an icon of the ancestral vestiges of the country. Some authors and
screenwriters have taken up these figures in their works; In addition, they have inspired
some producers to film a television series "Las Aventuras del Cipitío" that deals with
Salvadoran cultural and social problems from the perspective of the Cipitío legend that was
born from the relationship that his mother Ziguet (Sihuet: Moon goddess) had ) with the
god Morning Star, and thus unfaithfully betraying her husband to the Sun god. After the
infidelity, Sihuet was renamed Sihuehuet as a derogatory form. That is why the god of
gods, Teotl or Tlaloc, upon finding out, dropped a curse on his son and mother. He demoted
her mother from the category of Moon goddess to a wandering spirit and her child was
condemned to never grow up, and to remain forever at the age of ten. For centuries, Cipit
was the god of forbidden and adulterous relationships. And currently, El Cipitillo is an icon
of Salvadoran culture, which is represented as a happy and wandering child. The Cipitío is
an autochthonous being of Salvadoran culture and folklore. His legend has evolved from
generation to generation, adapting many of its elements and incorporating them into the
present so that it does not lose its essence; although deep down, he still retains an ancient
truth. The name Cipit comes from the Nahuatl language, which means child, and from there
the word "Cipote" used to name infants in El Salvador is deformed. Cipit is the son of the
gods, but his appearance is that of a child of low social and economic conditions. He can be
seen manifesting as a child, with a huge belly and the power to teleport. He wears blanket
clothing, caps, and a pointed palm hat with wide brims. On the other hand, the Cipitío has a
deformed foot, having them upside down and causing confusion on the paths where he
walks. The peasants try to follow his tracks, getting lost since, given the physical
deformation, they follow the path in the wrong way, going to the opposite side of the
correct one. It is said that he frequents sugar cane mills, likes to eat and bathe in ashes, he
also likes to frequent rivers and is an eternal lover of girls whom he constantly spies on,
whistles, or throws pebbles and flowers at. His diet is based on ashes and bananas. In
addition, Cuscatleca mythology places him in the San Vicente region, although he can
easily teleport. Although he is not offensive, he is very annoying. Generally, eEl Cipitilo
makes jokes with which he makes fun of people, laughing uproariously. Similarly, it has
been heard mentioned in Salvadoran superstitions that when a girl is harassed by him, the
solution to drive him away is to eat in the bathroom, in front of a toilet bowl; this because
he is supposed to be easily disgusted by people's bad habits; so it is assumed that this is the
most effective solution when a woman is being harassed by him.