Mayan Ceremony

So we just got done with the Mayan ceremony. A man came to the school and explain as we participated in creating it as well. It was very interesting. It involves creating something like a fire pit with many special layers of sugar, wood, incence, candels, and many more things. For our purpose it was an education demonstation and we could have good wishes for the students and the school here. Every candle color has a different ¨wish¨ or desire. There is also a part where you throw pieces of something... parts of pine in the fire. As we were talking about that part it is very similar to our expirience with throwing paper in a fire or toilet paper in water to represent sins. It was very interesting to hear the explanations that the man gave. He talked about no matter what your spirituality is the point is not for division but community and good among humanity.

He also explaned the Mayan belief of the end of the calendar. Which for many of us we hear that it is the end of the world. But for the Mayans it ends a period of time and that it will begin another period that will be better. According to the mayans we were created with the ability to have control over the world but now we are not doing so in balance. There isn´t the equalibrium. And we have the ability to do such good things for humanity but it often doesn´t happen. The end of the mayan calander begins a new period. I does begin with catastrophic type events... volcanic or other things but the prediction is that there will be changes and the world becomes a better place. I can´t describe it exactly how he did but I liked the way he said it.

So that was my mayan ceremony experience. I enjoyed it better than our visit to San Simon yesterday... that was slightly more strange.

P.S. you don´t have to read all this stuff I put here! Its like my diary too so that I can remember things... so sometimes I write too much!

P.P.S. The game the presidents and press played a few days ago I forgot to mention was futbol... I would like to see our canidates do that!