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nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts) Fri Dec 21, 2012, 02:26 AM Dec 2012

For those actually interested in what the Maya [View all]

Elders are doing tonight...

No, not preparing for the end of the world. I leave that for Western folks new age types.

Nope.

They are offering sacrifice mostly of smoke and not incense, but it would work as to the smell.. As well as prayers,.to the four cardinal points as well as having some ritual meals.

They are setting themselves for the end of the old world and the Birth of the next one...

But the end of the world? Not so much.

They are deeply spiritual people connected to the land, in ways that most of us can barely imagine. Oh and they are probably laughing at all these ladinos using the Aztec sun stone...that is if they are even aware of it.

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For those actually interested in what the Maya [View all] nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 OP

Thanks for the info! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2012 #1

Tonight is a deeply spiritual night nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #3

It really does bug me to see so much misrepresentation of the beliefs of the Maya and their FVZA_Colonel Dec 2012 #2

Yup, plenty of prayers and offerings to the ancestors nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #4

Thank you. 2naSalit Dec 2012 #5

You welcome nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #7

I'm going to be doing a simple salt-water purification ceremony Raksha Dec 2012 #12

Have any Good Links to the REAL news stories? dballance Dec 2012 #6

Let me see if the Mexican news media is doing more than touristy stuff nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #8

Here nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #9

Thank you, Nadin... nenagh Dec 2012 #10

thank you for this zappaman Dec 2012 #11

I hope that the're snickering a little,too. a la izquierda Dec 2012 #13

Somewhere in his grave a very particular monk nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #15

Lol... a la izquierda Dec 2012 #16

I know, I know...a little inside baseball humor! nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #17

+1 azurnoir Dec 2012 #14