Our vision of the cosmos is in general an idea of renewal that rationalizes the situation of human beings in the cosmos. Our world is a living world inhabited and used by beings of flesh and blood, under the law of cycles, old age, and death. Therefore/, it demands a repair, a renewal, a strengthening periodically. This is the reason why we are almost always reflecting about the origins of human beings and almost always meditating about the universe. By this route we unite science and spirituality. For us secular and spiritual life is indivisible. Human beings united with the cosmos in an apparent separation and in eternal transformation form the whole.
Each community throughout the entire Guatemalan territory has its own sacred places. There our grandfathers and grandmothers pray. They are the fathers and mothers of our people. They are the ones who understand our Mayan calendar and the most ancient secrets. There they direct the worship of Mother Earth. Since the earth is like a mother who sacrifices herself giving us, her children, everything that she has (food, drink, medicine, clothes, etc.) and this costs her work, pain, and suffering, we human beings must be grateful children. We should love the earth like one loves a mother or a father, we should pay tribute to the earth because from her we receive everything that we have in life and she receives us after death.
The rituals come to be the organization and the rules of a practice for relating with the Heart of Sky and Heart of the Earth, as an all sacred whole. The rituals are integrated with places, objects, prayers, ceremonies, and other practices. As a general rule, the entire cosmos is a sacred place. Whatever part of the cosmos we find ourselves in constitutes a place for relating ourselves to our deities. However, for several millennia, our communities have chosen specific places for carrying out Mayan ceremonies such as: volcanoes, mountains, caves, springs, etc. These places are called alters of sacred places. They are places in which to dialog, since the prayers and ceremonies are, in essence, dialogs between human beings, the cosmos, and the deities; they are places for conducting the communion between the spiritual and the material. In general, high places like the summits of volcanoes and mountains are suited for directing oneself directly to the Heart of the Sky who represents spiritual energy; and the lower places such as caves, canyons, seas, rivers, lakes, etc. are more appropriate for directing oneself to the Heart of the Earth who represents material energy.
One of the characteristics of Mayan Spirituality is that it doesn't exclude anyone. It is inclusive. Therefore, your teacher can share all this information during your classes provided that your Spanish is advanced enough to be able to understand the information. You can also learn about Mayan Spirituality though lectures on the subject and through Mayan ceremonies, which are conducted at the school according to the calendar of activities.
Our vision of the cosmos is in general an idea of renewal that rationalizes the situation of human beings in the cosmos. Our world is a living world inhabited and used by beings of flesh and blood, under the law of cycles, old age, and death. Therefore/, it demands a repair, a renewal, a strengthening periodically. This is the reason why we are almost always reflecting about the origins of human beings and almost always meditating about the universe. By this route we unite science and spirituality. For us secular and spiritual life is indivisible. Human beings united with the cosmos in an apparent separation and in eternal transformation form the whole.
Each community throughout the entire Guatemalan territory has its own sacred places. There our grandfathers and grandmothers pray. They are the fathers and mothers of our people. They are the ones who understand our Mayan calendar and the most ancient secrets. There they direct the worship of Mother Earth. Since the earth is like a mother who sacrifices herself giving us, her children, everything that she has (food, drink, medicine, clothes, etc.) and this costs her work, pain, and suffering, we human beings must be grateful children. We should love the earth like one loves a mother or a father, we should pay tribute to the earth because from her we receive everything that we have in life and she receives us after death.
The rituals come to be the organization and the rules of a practice for relating with the Heart of Sky and Heart of the Earth, as an all sacred whole. The rituals are integrated with places, objects, prayers, ceremonies, and other practices. As a general rule, the entire cosmos is a sacred place. Whatever part of the cosmos we find ourselves in constitutes a place for relating ourselves to our deities. However, for several millennia, our communities have chosen specific places for carrying out Mayan ceremonies such as: volcanoes, mountains, caves, springs, etc. These places are called alters of sacred places. They are places in which to dialog, since the prayers and ceremonies are, in essence, dialogs between human beings, the cosmos, and the deities; they are places for conducting the communion between the spiritual and the material. In general, high places like the summits of volcanoes and mountains are suited for directing oneself directly to the Heart of the Sky who represents spiritual energy; and the lower places such as caves, canyons, seas, rivers, lakes, etc. are more appropriate for directing oneself to the Heart of the Earth who represents material energy.
One of the characteristics of Mayan Spirituality is that it doesn't exclude anyone. It is inclusive. Therefore, your teacher can share all this information during your classes provided that your Spanish is advanced enough to be able to understand the information. You can also learn about Mayan Spirituality though lectures on the subject and through Mayan ceremonies, which are conducted at the school according to the calendar of activities.
