This is Theresa – She thought I should wear the braided band like this

I had carefully planned the pilgrimage to Mexico and Guatemala

And, in the Airport of Mexico City,

Tor - COMPADRE

I met with Tor, my best friend’s son;

he turned out to be

a most wonderful compadre,

and we took turns taking the lead

in a very easy-going way.

Such was the life-style of the Mayans, too
and even though we thought,
we didn’t know much Spanish,
we were sort of adopted and spoken to
AS IF WE BELONGED…

Our pilgrimage took us to the pyramids of…

Teotihuacan outside Mexico City with the Great Pyramid, the 3^rd biggest in the World,
Monte Alban, a City of the Sun on top of a mountain outside Oaxaca,
Palenque with such a renowned history that turned out altogether different in the middle of the seething jungle close to Yucatan plains

Uxmal with the Pyramid of the Magician, said to be built on a single night, and we saw that it was somehow true.
Chichen Itza; We saw the equinox sun set on the 20^th of March on the west side of the great pyramid, so that Kukulkan = Quetzacoatl, the winged serpent could meander down the stairs of the east side, for now it was time to sow the corn
Tikal, where nobility came to nothing against love…

we saw the sacred sites of
Mitla; the city of the dead near Oaxaca, and
Dzibilcaltun; meaning “the bright shining stones”, where we saw the equinox sun rise on the 21^st of March

And we stood in awe (this is Tor on the pic)
and drank of the wisdom of the greatest tree,
Arbol de Thule, some 2000 years old and some 200 people wide.

When the conquisados came (the Spanish soldiers) they thought the Mayans to be among the first Christians because of the Mayan cross. This is not true.
The Mayan cross symbolizes Father Sky and must not rest on the ground.