Continue traveling photographic exhibition on the Maya in Spain
During 2008, various provinces of Spain may continue to enjoy the photo exhibition "The Mayas, Traditions of the Sun", consisting of 45 images and 15 panels that show the customs and traditions that distinguish this culture.
In a joint effort by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) NASA and the Foundation Sophia of Spain, visitors to the Old Continent to appreciate this show roaming the fall of the god Kukulkan (Quetzalcoatl) for the pyramid El Castillo , In Chichen Itza, declared a new wonder of the world, or discover the equivalence of the current date in the Mayan calendar, among other surprises.
Palma de Mallorca was the first headquarters, where he opened the show and will be traveling in February 2008 when the images that portray this civilization visit cities like Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.
The purpose of this project is to disseminate the Mayan culture, archeology and astronomy bring this civilization to different communities and young people, providing information to serve as an incentive in continuing their studies as well as rescue the ancestral knowledge and preserve the language and traditions, said Jose Huchim, director of the archaeological site of Uxmal.
Another objective of the project is to view the sun from the pre-Hispanic, the way it was perceived by the Mayans and the importance they attached to star with images that are related to observatories and buildings that have ties with astronomical events in Yucatan, Chiapas and Oaxaca, added the specialist.
According to a communique of the INAH, highlighted in the sample the perspective provided by the NASA (U.S. aerospace agency) celestial sun as an asset that has FULGUR and solar rota, in addition to studies on how it affects the daily life of mankind, astronauts and satellites.
In 2005, a group of researchers from NASA attended the zone of Chichen Itza in conveying the equinox in real time at the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California, where Mayan groups gathered migrants, who in turn benefited from a distance of the event , In the midst of a party with dancing and food typical of their region, said Huchim.
He was so small Mayan organizations held exhibitions on the Bay with U.S. authorities that a selection of photographic INAH Yucatan made available to the Mexican consulate in one place.
Subsequently, the images were in the city of Los Angeles, which attracted to the Sophia Foundation, which organizes for the third consecutive year cycles around the Mayan culture, to bring them to Spain and to conduct roving samples.
Another goal being sought with the exhibition is to provide evidence of the Maya peoples at present, namely to portray the context in which communities are developing today, both at home and in areas occupied by those who have migrated .
Traditions persist in spite of the conditions that modernity is ticking; beliefs, expressions in dress, symbolism and processes remain in force in the daily life of these communities.
It should be noted that not only settled in those towns in the country are practicing these habits, have crossed borders to be performed by groups Mayan migrants who decided to leave their land to seek their fortune elsewhere, but without forgetting its traditions, which have been installed where .
Huchim said that at present there are more than six million Mayan settled in territories of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, the United States and other countries that keep alive their language and traditions, in one of the more than 30 variants are known .
For this reason and in the scope and type of visitors to the exhibition may have all the information contained therein is presented in three languages, Mayan, English and Spanish.
It exists in other regions of the country strong interest in the historical legacy that different cultures and left that to date remain in force.
Such is the case of Oaxaca, Xochicalco and northern Mexico, especially Paquimé in Chihuahua, where he will work next year will be similar to this project, completed the specialist.
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