Mayan spiritual beliefs coming back!
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The CORN GOD is Yum Kaax! There are thirteen dieties
in the indigenous spiritual beliefs of Belize, in the
Upper World. There are nine deities in the Lower
World of the caves and underground.
The closest thing I have found to it from imported
spiritual beliefs was the HUGE BOOK 'URANTIA' which
kind of goes into all the dieties in the Christian old
time religions, BEFORE Emperorer Justinian in the
400's AD, re-wrote that Middle Eastern imported
religion now common in Belize.
Now the Conquistador religion Catholicism has
quieted down; due to invasion of Belize by evangelical
sects of that religion since about the 1970's, the
old Gods are coming back among the indigenous
spiritual beliefs. In the old days, you got
shackled and dragged by foot to Merida behind a mule
and then tortured and eventually torn apart by horses
in quartering in the public square. Many old people
in the Benque and Succotz area remember the tales of
Catholic atrocities from their great parents. Even up
until the 1960's the heavy hand of a Catholic parallel
government ran most things in Belize. Things much
better today on the spiritual front though nowadays.
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--- Uriel Andros wrote:
> This message sent to the Bz-Culture Mailing List
> from Uriel Andros :
>
> When I lived in Succotz I became very aware of the
> feelings of reverence and fear felt for Chac. I
> have
> always been fond of lightning displays and would sit
> on the front porch of my house watching the sky
> light
> up. The kids would express great concern that I
> would
> be killed by Chac for watching. Then a young girl
> in
> San Ignacio was struck by lightning and killed and
> they took that as evidence they were right.
>
> Also while I was living there during Fiesta an
> effigy
> of the corn goddess would be brought down from a
> small
> temple nearby and paraded around the town. I never
> learned the Maya name as they were very reluctant to
> talk about the whole thing, since they were
> ostensibly
> Christians.
>
> Uriel
>
> --- Gordon Taylor wrote:
>
> > Unlike other spiritual beliefs in Belize, these
> > ceremonies are usually done at shrines, at home.
> > There is no collective ceremonial center like a
> > church. But San Antonio is strong for Chac and so
> > is San Jose Succotz and Benque Viejo. These
> > rituals are also common in rural farms throughout
> > the Toledo District and around the Jaguar
> Preserve.
>

Posted by falconview0 at 12:11 PM EDT

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