Henequen

This is the part that I left out of the last post.  The word, henequen - it means string, twine made from the henequen agave in Mexico.  In the process of making leaves of this plant into fiber for twine, you can collect the juice to make alcohol.  Henequen is nearly the same as sisal, once an important crop because the twine was used for harvesting grain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henequen_industry_in_Yucatán   about the twine, with lots of history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_fourcroydes   about the henequen plant

But nobody said that henequen is Harlequin.  I made that up - it's an extrapolation.  Maybe I will find proof later.  This is only a blog.  I'm researching something interesting, and sharing my notes.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions without any proof.

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page about sotol, an alcohol similar to tequila.

"A humanoid figure with a spray of spiky leaves for a head and a black stripe down the middle of its body may represent the magical spirit of sotol. Sometimes it appears in connection with hunting scenes, at others it appears surrounded by orange ochre flames and black smoke."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotol   So, you can see why I think that Henequen is Harlequin.

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