When you ballroom dance, the man decides where the woman is going to go. His aim better be good.
Category: Pre-Columbian Mexico (Page 1 of 2)
Since we just celebrated Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, it seems like a good time to talk about Maya “way” or Mexican Nauals. These are spirit animals that dance in the underworld. The Maya believed their King had an animal essence that would roam the earth while he slept.
The Classic Maya had a true written language that consisted of glyphs that were either syllabic or logographic. A glyph could either be a syllable or an entire word or concept. These glyphs could be in sculptures, painted on walls or ceramics, or drawn in their own version of books: codices. A codex was made with bark paper and folded back and forth like an accordion.
When you finally arrive at Chichen Itza…it’s very exciting to see El Castillo waiting for you.
In the Anthropology Museum in Merida there are many representations of twins. These twins populate many creation stories. Once thought to be recent, these stories were told in antiquity.
Once you are a diabetic you never look at food and eating the same way. It’s carbs, fat and proteins. Fiber and sugars and sweeteners. Timing and coming up and coming down and avoiding the lows. Nothing goes mindlessly into your mouth again.
Cheryl is a ballroom dancer who has taken many lessons in the past, and in Entering the West she returns to the studio.
Dance is also very important to the Indigenous people of the Americas, past and present, from the prairie nations and their secret societies to the Maya whose Kings danced at ceremonies of accession and religious meaning.
The Mexican site Palenque has many stucco figures adorning its temples; including this one of the King Pakal dancing which you can find on the Palace.
Palenque did not disappoint: the Temple of the Cross was more beautiful in person.
Chiapa de Corzo is a town in the Chiapas highlands of Mexico. People have lived here since 1400 BCE, and the earliest Mesoamerican inscribed date is found here on a Stela 2: 36 BCE is the first Long Count Date. The colonial city of Chiapa de Corzo was founded in 1528 CE near the ancient city.
In the center of the Valley of Oaxaca, rising up from the plain is the Pre-Columbian city Monte Alban. This Zapotec city dominated the valley by 200 AD. It covers the top of a hill that overlooks the valley with mountains in the distance. In addition to the small ballcourt are stone platforms, palaces and tombs.
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