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People of Maize |
On Friday, October 7th, we all got up early and headed out to Comalapa, a town outside of Antigua. In Comalapa we met with a Maya priest/shaman who showed us to where he performs rituals and keeps the count of ceremonial days. We took part in a ritual to bless our group and some of the students even took a greater part in the performance. Somethings were very intense for some of the students, so the whole experience was worth while.
After we left the shamans house we were given a tour of the Comalapa murals which depict the history of Guatemala, the good but mostly the bad and the struggles. The murals are very long and tell a story that is very sad and powerful. As an artist, the murals really spoke to me about the power of history on the contemporary Maya, and how the history of this country is still very prominent in the mind of the modern Maya people. I took pictures of all the sections of the mural, but I am only going to show a few of them here in this setting, to put into a visual context some of the things I have already mentioned in this blog.
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| Beginning of the Spanish Conquest |
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| Beginning of the Rebel resistances and the times of violence |
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| The 1976 Earthquake |
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| La Violencia; The escalation of violence |
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| Guatemalan Flag manipulated by the violence |
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| A new beginning with the introduction of the Peace Accords in 1996 |
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