Small Mayan temple structure at San Gervasio on Cozumel Island, Mexico. Building materials were limestone, coral sand (mortar) and wood.

 According to Mayan culture "life is an immense and dramatic ritual."* the subject of which: creation and destruction is repeated: creation and destruction, creation and destruction. Like the symbolic Medicine Wheel life is a circle; it is not linear, history 
is repeated again and again. The Mayan civilization now destroyed will rise from the rocks and rule again.  

Maya Mundo (Mayan world) covers over 195, 000 square miles including parts of five countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador.  Mayans presence as a budding civilization began in Guatemala and Belize circa 2500BC.   NEXT

*Octavio Paz