Tales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village

Have I mentioned that I’m an editor/publisher at Suntopaz? I’m pleased to announce that SunTopaz has just published the Kindle edition of Tales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village by Kristine Ellingson, an American who has been married to a Mayan man and living in a rural Mayan village for 20 years. Very interesting!

Significant Mayan ruin in danger of being lost

El Mirador, a Mayan ruin located in the north of present-day Guatemala’s El Peten region, is in danger of being lost to modern development. A road bringing logging equipment in to harvest the surrounding forest is running roughshod over ruins. In addition, looters remove ancient Mayan artifacts for big profit. El Mirador is especially significant because it harbors evidence of settlement far into the past … as long ago as the 6th century BCE according to the Wikipedia article El Mirador.

For me, any especially ancient pre-Columbian Mayan ruin could be a site visited by Atlanteans in our far distant past.

Carol Chapman
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The Turtle in Mayan Mythology

At the end of my talk The Yucatan Connection to Atlantis and Lemuria Using Cayce Clues and Mythology on Wednesday at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. for the Edgar Cayce Forum, a man came up to me and asked me the significance of the turtle in Mayan Mythology.

I knew the turtle had to be significant to the Maya in some way since I remembered seeing a large turtle made of earth and carved stone in one of the Mayan ruins I visited.

Well, it turns out that when the Maya looked at the constellation of stars we presently call Orion, the Hunter, they saw instead a turtle. It represented the original domestic oven.

The Myth of the Sorcerer Dwarf

I’m excited about speaking at the Edgar Cayce Forum tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E in Virginia Beach, Virginia. My topic is: The Yucatan Connection to Atlantis and Lemuria Using Cayce Clues and Mythology.

The talk tonight will include the description of mythological stories of the ancient Maya that illustrate influences from Atlantis and Lemuria.

Of course, there are many myths associated with the Maya. However, my favorite has to do with this magnificent structure, The Pyramid of the Sorcerer in Uxmal, Yucatan.

The Pyramid of the Sorcerer in Uxmal, Yucatan, by John J. Chapman

This magnificent photograph was taken by my husband, John Chapman. The late afternoon light shows the unusual contours of this pyramid.

I look forward to meeting you tonight. Come to the Edgar Cayce Forum and discover the myths of the ancient Maya and their connection with the Edgar Cayce readings.

Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman

The Story of the Maya Sorcerer at the Edgar Cayce Forum Tomorrow

My talk at the Edgar Cayce Forum tomorrow, Wednesday, September 29th, 7:30 p.m., at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, will also include a snippet of a videotaped interview with a Maya man describing the story told to him by his mother, told to her by her father, about the Sorcerer who built the Pyramid of the Sorcerer in Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico..

Come to the Edgar Cayce Forum tomorrow night for the The Yucatan Connection to Atlantis and Lemuria Using Cayce Clues and Mythology and hear Santiago Dominguez recount the story of his ancestors.

The Alux – a Maya Leprechaun

This Wednesday, on September 29th at 7:30 p.m., one of the Maya myths I will be discussing will be about an Alux (pronounced Alush), one of the “Little People.” My talk, The Yucatan Connection to Atlantis and Lemuria Using Cayce Clues and Mythology, will be held at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia and is sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum. Click here for more information.

Rabbit in the Moon

Do you know that when the ancient Maya – and I assume modern-day Maya – look at a full moon, they see a rabbit in the moon, not the “man in the moon,” as North Americans do?

An American Bimbo in Yucatan

This is a great book, An American Bimbo in Yucatan, which my publishing company, SunTopaz LLC, will be publishing soon. However, I wonder about the title. It is a fantastic true story of a woman from Oregon who moves to Yucatan, meets and marries a Mayan man, and has lived in a Mayan village for the last 19 years.

I fear the “American Bimbo” in the title sounds too much like a clueless, ignorant, unkind blonde disrepecting the Mayan people. In reality, she is very grateful for all she has learned from the Mayan villagers.

But, she is blonde and she did start out pretty clueless. Maybe a better title would be “An Oregon Bimbo in Yucatan.” What do you think?

Yucatan Memories in Photographs

I am in the process of working on publishing a personal experience book of a woman’s story of living in the Yucatan with a Mayan husband for the last 18 years. It is a heartwarming and also informational book. In going over her photographs, I am happy and nostalgic for the wonderful people we met in Yucatan.

Coba is the Flavor of the Day

Today I made my shot list for Coba, an especially beautiful but also wild and wierd archeological site in the Yucatan Peninsula. I especially like the plethora of wild birds chirping and yodelling in the morning. With the camcorder filming, I was thrilled when a two to three foot tall brown speckled wading bird not only gave out three large squawks, but it also pooped and then flew away . . . all on camera. It is the Coba lakes that attract the tropical birds. Most of the land surface of Yucatan Peninsula is dry and without any rivers, streams or lakes. The inhabitants have to collect rainwater or haul water up from underground.