The Ceremonia de la Pedida de la Lluvia is a Mayan ritual that has its origins in the pre-Hispanic culture of Mesoamerica. The ceremonial ritual is analysed; an ancestral tradition that has survived over the years, despite the acculturation brought about by Eur...
The year 1513 A.D. in this version no doubt corresponds with the period of administration of Panama by Vasco Nunez de Balboa, but around this time there were no negro slaves in Panama. Thus the story of the pearl being discovered by a slave, who was granted his freedom does not seem t...
Within Mesoamerica as a whole, the basic forms of the Maya hieroglyphs were established on a horizon considerably preceding known occurrences of the Hand and Eye motif. The marking of a wrist with a nucleated circle is present in a sizable body of glyphs. It might be argued, therefore, that...