Mayan ritual to celebrate the new solar year 5197

By: Ligia María

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Guatemala January 11 th ,2010. Spiritual guides invocate to different forces of nature, to celebrate the ritual of the new solar year 5197.

Indigenous elders participated in a ritual in order to celebrate the beginning of the new Mayan year at the municipality of Salamá department of Baja Verapaz. There were other rituals in others municipalities too.

A Mayan ritual had taken place before the break of dawn, when it was dark and cold this past Saturday, corresponding to K’at (net, tangle). It is going to rule the next 360 days of the Mayan solar calendar 5197.

Before the ceremony the elders invoked the forces of nature, to their ancestors, to the four cardinal points, to the volcanoes, and to the sacred places inside and outside of the country.

For the ritual the elders used resin of trees, plants, bread, candles, food, salt, sugar, and other offerings. Then theyburned all of them after they invoked the forces of nature.

Source: http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2010/enero/11/367990.htm

Spanish version.Versión en Español.

RITUAL PARA CELEBRAR EL NUEVO AÑO SOLAR 5197

Guatemala 11 de Enero de 2010. Guías espirituales invocan a las diferentes fuerzas de la naturaleza, para celebrar el ritual del año nuevo solar 5197. Sacerdotes y sacerdotisas indígenas participaron en un ritual para celebrar el comienzo del Año Nuevo Maya, que tuvo lugar en Salamá, Baja Verapaz.

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