Stuff About Guatemala: part one

Guatemala may be the most Mayan country. Guatemala may also be the country in which the Maya have been most continuously persecuted. U.S. wealth has paid the Guatemalan ruling class to kill Mayans for decades.  There are still a lot of Mayans there. Viva El Oriente! The Mexican ruling class has not focused on the persecution of Maya as persistently as has the Guatemalan ruling class.

Much of that recent (100 year) persecution has been, dear US citizen an example of your tax dollar at work. However, Guatemalans, like most people in the world, know that you have no idea of what your government is doing and so are very forgiving.

The Mayans have a healthy strength. The Spaniards could not completely dominate them. A fearful, powerful and murderous few of the Guatemalan oligarchy could not either. Recently that oligarchy has begun to see their great Mayan population as a possible resource to be exploit rather than crushed.

If you do not let shame overpower you, Guatemala can be a marvelous place to visit. You might even find a 'Mayan princess' there with a smile so radiant and goddess-like that it could energize you for a long time. Looking, you will probably also find fear, oppression, and poverty. Still there is beauty in Guatemala and many curious configurations of energy. With a little care you may also find abundant health comfort.

More Maya

I suspect that certain Maya calculated long periods of time with little error. I believe that I have used the terms Initial Series or Long Count to refer to these calendric calculations in earlier posts.


Please use 'comments' to add any information you can. We like questions and comments too.


It seems that the Maya learned some useful approaches to reality from the Olmec. Olmec may have been the first to give place holding value to numeral which led to the concept of zero.


What can you tell us about the Olmec?


I believe that copies of Mayan writing dating back to about 1200 AD are available to us. Where can we get a good English translation of early Mayan writings?


I suspect that dance among the Maya is as important as it has been among other Indian Americans. I believe that dance carries history, technology, and culture of the people. It may be called sacred. 

Dead Maya

Suggestions from dead Maya:
~ Develop vision.
~ Act, move, and behave with grace and skill.
~ Honor the sparrow hawk.
~ Continue to practice writing, sculpting, singing, and praying.
~ Honor your lineage and practice what you have been taught.
~ Listen to the secret voices which come from the ground you walk on.

Early Mayan Teachings

~ Have gracious generosity in shaing your wisdom, skill, art, and vision.

~ Your brothers want to help.

~ Develop wisdom and skill.

~ Develop gracious generosity.

~ Secrets of your forefathers are reveled to you by voices which come from the silence of the night.

~ Honor singers, poets, writers, engravers.