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E No fat, he was once a civilization too warlike rather oriented trading that has started to build from 600 sacred sites around the Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala and Honduras.


these cities have prospered by trading fairly peacefully with their neighbors between 600 and 900 (peak of the Mayan culture).














The company has Maya was a true theocracy: the fate of men depended on its relationship with the gods and priests in particular that of rain (Chaac) because in the Yucatan, the availability of water depends exclusively on rain. Here there is no river water through the soil and limestone form cenotes or natural reservoirs that allow water to dip the dry season. C Chaac why the god is the god most revered and it is ubiquitous in Uxmal, Labná, COBA and the other No we have not visited. He is represented in the form of a head very abstract and geometric style Puuc. We love this minimalist architecture, very cubist actually.











M has IS voila, c is not so simple, we also discover that the more recent buildings, our Chaac Quetzalcoatal coexists with the Aztecs, the famous serpent (earth and fertility) has feathers (the air) with its bell that can be seen below cons.
Indeed, at the end of the first millennium has arrived in the north, a Toltec tribe whose influence on some sites, particularly in Chichen Itza, is very visible.
















These Toltecs, relatives of Aztec warriors and Mexico were quite happy practicing sacrificial ceremonies or dominate various refinements such as beheading (classical) or pulling out of hearts (most original) or precipitation in the sacred wells. The victims were generally chosen from the ranks of prisoners of war (which was intended to supply fresh meat in human sacrifice) or in some cases in their own troops!
Ci cons of skulls impaled on spikes, and higher, you have recognized an eagle devouring a heart still wriggling. A little gore, no?









The arrival of the Toltecs seem to have been smooth and the Aztec culture was integrated into the ancient Mayan rituals.
Suddenly, the reasons friezes reflect different influences in different places: Geometric friezes on the facades to the Maya, strips realistic, low to the Toltecs, but Always step pyramid, mostly oval to the Maya, square to the Toltecs.






















A the English arrived, all these cities had been abandoned for religious reasons that have long remained mysterious for today archaeologists are unanimous dock to incriminate a very long period of drought that has devastated the priests because the more people find funny na massive sacrifice to bring rain increasingly rare revolts, migrations, wars INTERCITES we will know probably nothing about the details because the English destroyed all written records of the Mayan culture and only a few remaining codices in 3 major Western libraries and private collections.

And the guides are strong, because they all have different theories. Since the aliens to the cavemen, caves out to directly build the pyramids, you can hear all the madness.

Even explanations the ball court are only interpretations of glyphs and assumptions very risky.
Some say the game is played to 7, for others it takes two to tango.
As c is a sacred game, giving the privilege of being murdered has Uxmal, of having the penis breakthrough Coba and decapitated, in Chichen-Itza.
As for rules, can not be the beginning of a consensus. Ilsemblerait that passing the rubber ball of 4 kg in this hole strokes hip, elbow, or shoulder was a feat cosmogonic. It deserved a ch'tit sacrifice.







short, nothing is known. And the current Mayan
either. For
Mayans still exist! Coba Our guide pointed out to us his hooked nose as on representations of steles this city, the language is still practiced, including the young, then it is not at al taught school.
It is written and Mayan-revival is part of Mexico today. That iconoclastic
colonizers to say, it does not destroy an ancient culture so easily. It seems to us that the guides Maya we bombard of questions n not much liked the Toltec ...

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the Maya Mexico 2: First

from Valladolid to noon, here we are walking on small roads.
Discoveries very isolated villages to the best of jungles withdrawn populated Maya Maya really.
The women wear traditional dress that we had glimpsed in Valladolid. Immaculate white dresses adorned with two bands of floral color.



Traditional houses are made of a piece oval mud walls covered with a roof of dried palm leaves.
Two doors. No windows. Inside, hammocks.
For richer, these traditional houses are converted into storage annexes and abandoned in favor of blocks of houses, modern tools.










the middle of nowhere, more fuel.
A passerby tells us the station, behind the black car ...
At first glance, there's not masses of pumps.
In fact, a sign suggests "gasolina 8.5 pesos per litro.
in his hammock, a Mayan impassively waiting barge. by a nap.
Once awake, he goes out with a water bottle filled with orange liquid and a tube attached to the end of a funnel.
We pay ten gallons in the tank.
We just hope it is of the essence!
The failure in the jungle, it does not

Finally, it passes and we arrive at the nickel walking Oxaxaxalab (never could pronounce).
An excellent grilled chicken, then Route Puuc name gives the specific architectural style of the region.

We have three hours before nightfall. Widely
enough to visit our first ruins. We start by voluntarily
least known.
We made the crescendo.

A Labna we discover a 70-room palace, surrounded by the remains of a pyramid and a monumental arch.
is a real shock to see how the site rehabilitation was successful and we are immersed in the ancient city. For
rather, we take for Maya dignitaries taking after their cocoa matutinal the SACB (Maya path) leading to the Shrine.
Puuc style is characterized by ornamentation has from the first level. Generally based on geometric patterns or colonnades. Here we are in the archetype of the purest Puuc.
Leaving a souvenir shop offers us a statue maya-suthra that we really liked, see below ...

is continued, fueled by the curiosity that mouthing. And we arrive at Kabah. The
, we have twenty minutes before closing. We will
ultimately much more to visit the palace and its surroundings.
Steps of the steepest lead us on a platform that we imagine sacrificial because it dominates a monumental space.


From the above, we find a broad plaza surrounded by several temples adorned with magnificent statues. Many of them have an appendix in the shape of a trumpet pointing skywards. No, it's not a phallic symbol base, but the representation of the god Chac, the god of rain.










time to see two magnificent warriors, a whistle sounds in Maya.
It's closing time.











Latest photos before leaving the scene of this first contact with the magical Mayan ruins that we find totally alone, because the flu H1N1 and the U.S. crisis.