The Poetry of a Maya Woman: Lupita Chan
Everyone has a language of their own, which means that everyone can create poetry. Among those who make and work with words are the strong, perseverant, valiant, and dedicated women,…
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Everyone has a language of their own, which means that everyone can create poetry. Among those who make and work with words are the strong, perseverant, valiant, and dedicated women,…
Continue readingWhen you think of the Maya civilization what comes to mind? Perhaps you conjure images of an exotic people adorned with feathers and animal skins on the eve of battle. …
Continue reading“Of yellow corn and white corn they made their flesh; from corn dough they made the arms and legs of man. Only corn dough went into the flesh of our…
Continue readingKnown in Yucatán as Pok Ta Pok, the Mesoamerican ball game is a ritual sport played since at least 1650 BC by pre-Columbian peoples across the Americas. In fact, Mesoamerican…
Continue readingThis magazine can’t have a section called “Who are the Maya” without mentioning one of their most characteristic features: the peninsular Maya language, or Maayat’aan. Maayat’aan has a history…
Continue readingNowadays, when we set off on an artistic project, we take for granted the wide palette of colors that modern chemistry and synthetic materials afford us, but this wasn’t always…
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