[Aztlan] Hurricane Dean

[Jules Siegel]

Hube Smith wrote:
> These Eastern Maya have no love for any outside authority.
>   

According to anthropologist Alicia Mabel Barabas, the Maya them­selves say:

"The cyclones are a punishment because the war has not broken out. They 
do not affect us because we are warned in advance. The war is necessary 
to avoid the end of the world. God, seeing that the war has not begun, 
becomes angry and sends the cyclones. The cyclones do happen in our 
time, but they do not touch us. They are the Sacred Cyclones. They 
barely hit us, only some rain and wind. Education is different 
ev­erywhere on earth. Our education does not consist of knowing how to 
read and write, because this is how God made us. The cyclone strikes 
those who do know how, and they die, but we do not. When the Great War 
ends, which shall last one year, everything will begin again anew. And 
thus shall our life be upon the earth, and account of this we depend 
upon God."

-- From “Ecab Poblado y Provincia del Siglo XVI en Yucatán” por Antonio 
P. Andrews y Antonio Benavides C., 1979, Cuadernos de los Centros 
Regionales. Centro Regional del Sureste, Instituto Nacional de 
Antropología e Historia, Mexico, D.F.



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JULES SIEGEL Apdo. 1764, 77501-Cancun, Q. Roo, Mexico
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