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"The ability of scholars to read mayan writing, or glyphs, continues to contribute to a new understanding of the rise and fall of the mayan civilization. In 1959, Heinrich Berlin became the first to recognize that some mayan glyphs were the names of ceremonial centers. The following year, Titiana ProskouriakofT learned to read the glyphs for the names of mayan rulers. By the time the government of Honduras started a major new excavation project at Copan, in 1975, more than half the mayan glyphs had been translated." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.)

"According to the mayan and Aztec legends, cacao was discovered by the gods in a mountain in South America. The cacao tree is believed to have originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon, and in South America. From there, the Mayans brought the cocoa tree to Central America. The first documented commercial shipment of cocoa beans occurred in 1585 between Veracruz, Mexico, and Seville, Spain. The first cocoa beverage outside of South and Central America was served in Italy in 1606. Soon after, cocoa spread throughout Europe." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"SWEAT LODGE Sweating for purification has taken place in one form or another for centuries, in Finnish saunas, Turkish hammans, Roman bathhouses, Russian banias, Irish sweathouses, mayan temescals, and Native American sweat lodges. All of our ancestors engaged in sweating for purposes of physical and spiritual purification. Who knows how the original sweathouse came about? What we do know is that humans, from the beginning of time, revered the magic of fire. In the sweathouse the mysterious power of fire is captured in the form of hot stones." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"For example, Japanese and Indonesian women report far fewer hot flashes than do women from Western societies.10 mayan women in the Yucatan do not report any symptoms at menopause other than menstrual cycle irregularity.11 Many researchers have attributed these differences to biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors. The clearest explanation for hot flashes is that they appear to be the body's response to a sudden but transient downward resetting of the body's thermostat, which is located in the hypothalamus." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The mayan version of the world-end is represented in an illustration covering the last page of the Dresden Codex.9 This ancient manuscript records the cycles of the planets and from those 8 Reprinted by permission of the Harvard University Press from Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations, pp. 38-39. 9 Sylvanus G. Morley, An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphics (57th Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology; Washington, 1915), Plate 3 (facing p. 32). deduces calculations of vast cosmic cycles." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Each plant has its own personality or, in the words of the Tzutujil mayan shaman Martin Prechtel, "lives according to its own true nature," so that Violet is soothing, cooling, and contains mucilage whereas Dandelion stimulates digestion, tones the liver, and aids the gall bladder. Violet is shy and unassuming while Dandelion is bold verging on aggressive. Spirit is alive in each of these plants but makes room for the diversity of their individual natures so that each has its own unique spirit and at the same time contains the wholeness of spirit within it." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"It is also known as Mexican husk tomato or mayan husk tomato. Cultivars include the green-fruited 'Rendidora' and the yellow-fruited 'New Sugar Giant'. Origin & history The tomatillo was an important staple food in the mayan and Aztec cultures and has been cultivated in Mexico and Guatemala for many centuries. In recent times, it has been distributed to many parts of the world as a new fruit crop. Parts used The ripe fruit. Cultivation & harvesting Plants are usually grown from seeds and thrive in temperate and subtropical regions." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"The dense tree cover masks an astonishing diversity of local habitats, all of which presented special challenges to ancient mayan farmers. Hot, humid, and unforgiving, the Maya homeland had few fertile soils, except in parts of the Peten and along larger river valleys. Pelting rain and intense tropical sunlight wreaked havoc with forest-cleared land, which soon became impossible to farm as a layer of brick-hard lat-erite formed on the surface. To cultivate such demanding fields by clearing and burning off the forest, then planting, required great experience and unlimited reservoirs of patience." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Ancient systems of timekeeping maintain a precise record of this. The mayan calendar, for example, calculates cycles of time that began in 3113 b.c. (more than 5,000 years ago), while the Hindu system of yugas tracks the progression of creation cycles that began more than 4 million years ago! Until the 20th century, in the Western world time was typically thought of in a poetic sense, as an artifact of human experience. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described our relationship to time as "a special kind of separation: a division that reunites." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Symbols of life and fertility in the mayan civilization, cocoa pods were carved into stone palaces and temples as early as 300 c.e. By 600 c.e., mayan territory had expanded from the Yucatan Peninsula north to the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. In the Yucatan, Mayans were cultivating the earliest known cocoa plantation, and the cocoa pod, which was often represented in religious rituals, was referred to as "the gods' food." By the sixth century c.e." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Travels to Guatemala every summer to learn Spanish and work with kids in a mayan school. Rita's story can teach us a great deal. Let's not wait until we have a near-death experience to live richly, to do what we most want to do, to grab the golden ring of adventure. Feeling paralyzed in the grip of fear keeps us in the deeply emotional, physical stress response zone. And if we remain unaware of this, we suffer all of its negative consequences." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"For instance, mayan women from South America (Beyene, 1986) and Rajput women in India (Kaufert, 1982) report no 'symptoms'. According to Lock et al (1988) Japanese women rarely mention hot flushes and the incidence of other problems such as backache and headache is low. It is therefore expected that due to the cross-cultural nature of the sample certain differences are likely to emerge with regard to physical, psychological and socio-cultural menopause experiences. Women, body and society. Cross-cultural differences in menopause experiences; Gabriella Berger & Eberhard Wenzel; See: www.ldb." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Women of the mayan community of Solola, Guatemala, using TFT2 Wanted: One thousand People Under the impact of changes in consciousness, our social DNA is changing as surely as our physical DNA might do. The cells of the immune system are few in number compared to the trillions of cells in our bodies. Yet they play a dominant role in keeping the whole organism healthy Every cell in the body does not have to be an immune system cell in order to fight off infection. It only takes a few." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"For the less adventurous, faux mayan prints are available on Western-style shirts and dresses. Many are made in China as part of globalization's dive to the bottom of the labor pool. A yellow school bus (Evanston School District) juggled me over to Solola in twenty minutes. Solola is a bustling town of fifty thousand souls, 90 percent of whom are indigenous Cakchiquel. The streets are littered with discarded newspapers, food, and plastic bags. Diesel fumes laden with dirt swirl down many streets." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"The smooth, rich taste The mayan fruit. The raw-wild flavor Behind Pan's flute. Sexual passion An instantaneous connection. Smooth, clear skin A perfect complexion. The emerald idol An erotic oil The polished leaves From exotic soil. Indulge your lips In fertile cream. Awaken to a Wonderful dream. The misty forest The secret delight. Urban fruit foragers In avo-groves at night. They gaze upon The twilight sky As silver jewels Sway nearby. The bass, the beat, The tribal drum, The Sunfooder singing "I've got to have one." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Mayan women from Guatemala look forward to menopause and their newfound freedom and consider the symptoms of menopause as evidence of their improved status. [Maturitas 44: 293-97, 2003] In contrast, many women in America have been conditioned to run to the doctor for a pill for their hot flashes and night sweats. Anatomy of the female breast Pectoralis muscles Lobul Nipple survace Areola Fatty tissue TREATMENT Breast cancer treatment A lot of the success of treatment depends upon just how extensive breast cancer is on the day of its discovery." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"In 1959, Heinrich Berlin became the first to recognize that some mayan glyphs were the names of ceremonial centers. The following year, Titiana ProskouriakofT learned to read the glyphs for the names of mayan rulers. By the time the government of Honduras started a major new excavation project at Copan, in 1975, more than half the mayan glyphs had been translated. As a result, by 1990 the history of Copan was beginning to become as clear and well-known as that of the ancient Egyptian dynasties." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.)

"I began to understand the role of Maximon as a symbol of mayan resistance as well as the representative of whatever spiritual path had its roots here. Jimenez, probably the oldest man, offered me a glass of rum to "cleanse" me for the visit. I hate the stuff unless it's in a tall glass with tropical fruit juice, ice, and maybe a little umbrella, but I wanted to respect the ritual. It burned so bad it must have killed every living organism in my system. Andres gave a long prayer with one hand on my shoulder. He held some red nut beads and a piece of crystal in his other hand." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Mayan territory had expanded from the Yucatan Peninsula north to the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. In the Yucatan, Mayans were cultivating the earliest known cocoa plantation, and the cocoa pod, which was often represented in religious rituals, was referred to as "the gods' food." By the sixth century c.e., the Maya, who called the cocoa tree cacahuaquchtl, were already using its seeds to make a cold, very spicy, bitter drink they called xocoatl, meaning "bitter water." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"His name combines "Simon" with max, the mayan word for sacred tobacco. Tobacco is used throughout the indigenous world to open a channel between earthly existence and the realm of the spirits. Syncretization is a strange accommodation. It allows colonized peoples to continue their own religious beliefs and practices by wrapping them in the cloak of the colonizer's religion. At the same time, it affords the colonizer a foothold in the spirit of the community. In Brazil the lusty, busty Yemanja, goddess of the rivers and seas, morphs into the Virgin Mary in many churches." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Both are about a hundred times slower than erosion from cultivated slopes. The mayan heartland was not the only place where soil influenced Native American civilizations. Soils of central Mexico tell similar stories of severe erosion on steep hillslopes undermining agriculture. In the late 1940s UC Berkeley professor Sherburne Cook drove around the central Mexican plateau and concluded that the land was in poorest condition in areas that had supported the largest populations before the Spanish conquest." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Mayan healers in Guatemala boil the bark into a decoction to treat stomach inflammation and regular stomachaches. Mutamba was a magical plant to the ancient Mayans, who also used it against "magical illnesses" and evil spells. In the Amazon, indigenous people have long used mutamba for asthma, bronchitis, diarrhea, kidney problems, and syphilis. They use a bark decoction topically for baldness, leprosy, and various skin diseases. Mutamba holds a place in herbal medicine systems in many tropical countries; chiefly the bark and leaves are used." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Midwives, medical personnel, and the women themselves reported that hot flashes simply do not occur, nor are they mentioned in books on mayan botanical medicine. The only sign of menopause was the cessation of periods. The difference between Americans, Greeks and other Europeans on the one hand, for whom hot flashes are common, and the Mayans and Japanese on the other, for whom they are rare or unknown, appears to be diet. The mayan diet consists of corn and corn tortillas, beans, tomatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, radishes, and other vegetables, with very little meat and no dairy products." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Eat Right, Live Longer: Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body (Get the book.)

"The antimicrobial properties of chili peppers (Capsicum species) and their uses in mayan medicine. J Ethnopharmacol; 52:61-70. 1996 Cruz L, Castaneda-Hernandez G, Navarrete A et al. Ingestion of chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) reduces salicylate bioavailability after oral aspirin administration in the rat. Can J Physiol Pharmacol Jun;77(6):441-6. 1999 Deal CL, Schnitzer TJ, Lipstein E et al. Treatment of arthritis with topical capsaicin: a double-blind trial. Clin Ther; 13(3):383-395. 1991 De Ridder D, Chandiramani V, Dasgupta P et al." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"These abandoned villages and towns may lie untouched for centuries, just as the ruins of their residents' mayan ancestors did before them. They too will hold a lesson for a future world. But whether any humans will be around to learn it is far from clear, as the following chapters will show. Mumbais monsoon The crops of 60 per cent of the world's population depend on a single recurrent weather feature: the Asian summer monsoon." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Mysteries of the Maya Many visitors to Mexico's mayan ruins feel that there is something special about Palenque. Its pyramids aren't as huge as those at Chichen Itza, and its temples aren't as remote and photogenically mist-wreathed as those at Tikal. Perhaps it is the knowledge that only 5 per cent of the ancient city has so far been excavated, and the exciting sight of mysterious mounds still covered in trees next to tracks leading off into the jungle. Or the recently deciphered hieroglyphs telling of supernatural deeds by holy kings and brave warriors." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Origin & history The tomatillo was an important staple food in the mayan and Aztec cultures and has been cultivated in Mexico and Guatemala for many centuries. In recent times, it has been distributed to many parts of the world as a new fruit crop. Parts used The ripe fruit. Cultivation & harvesting Plants are usually grown from seeds and thrive in temperate and subtropical regions. Fruits fall to the ground when nearly ripe and should be collected every day. They are kept for up to four weeks for the husk to dry out and the berry to fully ripen." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Further evidence from ocean sediments confirms that the mayan Classic Period ended with the double blow of an extended dry period 'punctuated by more intense multiyear droughts' between ad 810 and 910. In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Jared Diamond identifies the Maya collapse as a classic case of ecological overshoot, where a highly developed society overreaches its resource base, leaving itself vulnerable to a natural disaster like drought." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Farming has been practised in Mexico at least since 7000 bc Important and well-known crop plants of mayan origin include amaranth, grain amaranth, various custard apples, cacao, ceriman, dragon fruit, prickly pear, papaya, sweet potato, various pumpkins, cho-cho, black sapote, corn (maize), pecan, avocado, yam bean, runner bean, common bean, vanilla, winter purslane, white sapote, sapodilla, bell pepper, tabasco pepper and tomatillo. North America This region contributed relatively few but important food crops." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"As the grear mayan cities rose from the jungle, people kept clearing land as their ancestors had done, but they stopped moving their fields. The tropical soils of the Yucatan Peninsula are thin and easily eroded. Under sustained cultivation, the high productivity obtained right after clearing and burning rapidly declines. Compounding this problem, the lack of domesticated animals meant no manure for replenishing the soil. Just as in Gteece and Rome, rising demand for food and declining productivity compelled cultivation of increasingly marginal land." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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