buried mirror: latest reflections

This fiery chac-mool image comes from shapeshift’s photostream. .

I’m not a big Pink Floyd fan, but the juxtaposition of their music with a family visit to the Maya site expresses something of how the public views Chichen Itza.

Posting is a little light while I’m on the road. Meanwhile, for your amusement, here are a couple of images of the facade of the Mayan Theater (1040 Hill Street, near 11th Street) in Los Angeles. The decorative motifs on the facade of the theater were inspired by elements of the late Maya sites of [...]

Supposedly 45 million people have voted on a new list of the seven wonders of the world, and currently Chichen Itza is ranking number two. Someone explain to me why anyone cares. Why would 45 million people vote on this? Chichen Itza is wonderful, but even among Maya ruins whether it is more wonderful than [...]

I’m having some trouble getting my Maya materials online because there are so many of them, and there’s just so little time. So, we’ll do this one building at a time. This is “El Caracol” (“the snail,” so called in Spanish for its winding internal staircase), which is called “The Observatory” in English. It’s not [...]