Crotalus tzabcan - Google Search

Crotalus tzabcan - Google Search

Link to photographs of the rattlesnake crotalus tzaban which I have substituted for the crotalus durissus durissus used by Jose Diaz-Bolio in his work The Geometry of the Maya. It appears that it is Mr. Diaz-Bolio's suggestion that the geometry, art, science of the Maya is closely related to the markings on the rattlesnake called Ahau Can on the Yucatan penninsula. Mr. Diaz-Bolio also makes connections between lunar chronology and the snakes markings. He considers the snake a great teaching sybmnol of the Maya.

I recommend to you The Geometry of the Maya by Jose Diaz-Bolio published in English in Merida, in 1987 Mexico as a translation of the 1965 original work in Spanish. I believe that you will find the reading and the black and white photos and drawings interesting and instructive.

Lizard Tails

While getting ready to leave 'the desert' for a time, I have desert memories:

Horned Toads used to live in harmonious accord with rattlesnakes, prospectors, desert rats, birds, and tourists.

These may be lies; they are just stories, some of which go back to my childhood. Like a sign I could read in a bar which my father drank. "You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps."

Each rattlesnake helps man by killing between 1200 and 150 rats, mice, gophers, and ground squirrels every year.

The black widow spider is so called because she spends most of here time as a widow. She eats her husband soon after the wedding.