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May 20th 2005 - :
I miss you so much! I love to be able to travel, through your pics. Thank you for being such a beautiful and interesting friend! Come home you travelin' gal.
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don pedro
alright, so i was invited to a mayan ceremony to celebrate wayeb', the end of the year, according to the mayan solar calender. this is the spiritual leader, shaman, healer that held the ceremony... [more]
mirador
after the first cermony, don pedro invited some of us to join him and another shaman, jose, for the Ļnew years eveĻ ceremony on top of a volcano. he is 63 yrs. old. i canīt believe he made it. this... [more]
hiking....
it should have taken us about 3 hrs., but it took five instead, he is quite old...and we all needed the rest anyways. we hiked through coffee fields and corn fields too.
the fire ring
the ceremonies are held around a fire, being the gateway to communication with God. offerings are made, such as sugar, rum, incense, chocolate, in order to give thanks. this drawing is the symbol fo... [more]
offerings
these are small discs made up of different herbs and something like coal, one is thrown in for each of the days of the month, everytime a certain prayer or thanks is concluded. we all participate.
don pedro, don jose
setting up the fire with candles, there are always candles outside of the fire as well, representing by color...death, life-blood, sky-purity, and corn-life?. and they pray to the four directions, n... [more]
shaman and tiger.
he carried this with him and hung it up for the ceremony, i am not sure why, and then hw wanted a photo with it.
again
they are both so nice and funny, seriously funny. jose hiked up with a radio blasting the whole time. he sets bones for a living, other than being a spiritual leader.
don pedro's prayer-poem
this is at the top of the volcano, he said that it was his, i am not sure if he wrote it, or put it up there, or it is an ancient saying that he feels is his. but i know that we recited parts of it s... [more]
parade
and after this very surreal day, we hiked down into town to find that they were having some sort of parade, all children dressed up in costume and throwing candy and dancing. quite a day.
dinner party
san pedro, my balcony, and i cooked a huge dinner...que rico! gustav, patti, louisa, laura, katie
full moon
it was nearly a full moon, tried to take some pictures of it over the lake, but instead i became obsessed with drawing things using the moon as a pencil and holding the shutter open
the lake, san pedro
look at how clear the water is...que lindo...it is like the carribean, except it is colder, not salty, and not the carribean.
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