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| . | [Ed.Note: Derek Parent sent me comments with each of these photographs to use in making captions for each of them. To me captions imply a statement of fact. Since we still have much to learn about the past cultures of this region, and since there is much that may never be known, I thought it best to pass along Derek Parent's interesting comments essentially unchanged.] | ||||||||||||
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 This image was
revealed to me by a local Tz'utujil living in San Pedro La Laguna on condition that I not
reveal it's location. This monument or "alter" as archaeologist Sam Edgerton Jr.
puts it (whom was forwarded a copy of my photograph a few years ago), may be one of the
most perplexing pieces of evidence showing that the Cotzumalguapan (sic) culture preceding
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 The image of the
petroglyph which follows is even more confusing as to its origins. I found the petroglyph
while on one of my many climbs of Volcan San Pedro. Its oriented in a way on an enormous
boulder on the slope of the Volcano, which tells me that perhaps an eruption or earthquake
had moved it in its now unnatural position. Both these ancient monuments add to the
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| This image is of the "Volcan Santa Clara". Modern Tz'utujil believe that their forefathers made human sacrifices by leaping off the "nose" to their deaths thousands of feet below. After contemplating the "profile" of the mountain's ridge for several months, I personally believe that the Mayadom tradition of tying a flat board to their children's forehead to create the "flat forehead" so revered by these ancients, may have come about perhaps through their reverence to this "Maya face profile". I've obviously no way to prove this but, this thought keeps recurring to me. There are no other "mountain profiles" as far as my experience goes, anywhere in Mayadom. The San Pedro La Laguna Maya think that this Maya mountain profile "is of some great significance". | |||||||||||||
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