Word: mesoamerica
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...still live in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and nearly 5 million more are spread throughout the Yucatan Peninsula and the cities and rural farm communities of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Ethnically, they are derived from the same people who created the most exalted culture in Mesoamerica. Yet the thousands of visitors who come each year to admire the imposing temples of Palenque might be shocked to know the ignominious fate of the Maya's modern-day descendants...
...view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace of the Universe, The Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me, and Mr. Xolotl. Along the way the show takes in the principal ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, from the Olmecs through the great epoch of the Mayans (A.D. 300-900) to the Toltecs and Aztecs; then the viceregal and Catholic mission art that rose out of the Spanish conquista in the 16th century; the impact of the Baroque and the growth of a Mexican (as distinct from...
...Boys are apparently of pre-Olmec origin, sculptured by predecessors of the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica, who dwelt in a region around Izapa, an ancient priestly center just across the border in Mexico. The gifted artisans did not insert magnetic rocks into the figures, but apparently carved them around natural magnetic poles in the original basaltic boulders. But how did they discover this magnetism? Mesoamerica's oldest known lodestone, or primitive compass, a 2.5-cm (1-in.) bar made of magnetic rock, dates back only to 1000 B.C., a millennium younger than the Fat Boys and some...
...long regarded the city -famed for its Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun and avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between A.D. 400 and 700, Teotihuacan was literally the Big Apple of Mesoamerica, the focus of a far-flung empire that stretched from the arid plains of central Mexico to the mountains of Guatemala...
...continual drives for funds, for obvious reasons. Many "paganized" forms of Christianity have evolved, but the Church does everything it can to suppress these, explaining "these minority groups frequently cause situations of conflict with the rest of the population." (See official introduction to Aldous Huxley's "Practicas Religiosas en Mesoamerica" (Religious Practices in Central America). Semenaria de Integration Social Guatemalteca, No. 11, 1965. Quote is from footnote #5 on page...