This is a fundraiser for the printing of calendars portraying a deep wisdom research Tata Mario has been doing on the Mayan Solar Calendar and the energies of the months. Recovering wisdom that has been nearly lost in the Maya K’iche culture. 

A note from Tata Mario:

Dear friends,  a cordial greeting.

For a long time I have had the concern of being able to share with you something profound about our Mayan worldview, these are very important issues that we must know and handle, because as descendants of our ancestors, the eternal Mayas, the way of thinking, of living have to do with much with our way of acting and behaving as good human beings. Believing that our lives on mother earth are, one to a few cycles.

I have always had many questions on the subject of Mayan Spirituality, I am very lucky to have met several wise elders on this subject, because they have lived it and have learned throughout their lives, they share with us, when we are interested in Spirituality.

The theme year AB' was one of the themes that I longed to know so much, its origin, its use and its importance for us human beings, in the year 2010 onwards I started with all this learning, I met a Kackchikel elder, and I was invited for a ceremony very similar to the Kiche Mayan New Year and it is called Tekexepual of the Kackchikeles and deals with the months of the year, it caught my attention and during the ceremony I lived very mystical moments, the ceremony was all night on January 5th. 

A few days later I had a conversation with the elder and I asked him some questions and he answered me that he did not master the AB' k'iche theme directly because he is very deep in the Kackchikeles, but he also replied that it was the precise moment in which I I had to deepen the practices of the Kiches because you are Kiche, investigate, I know it won't be so easy, but you have to start, he told me, and he was very right, at least he gave me Light to start researching on my own initiative. stigar and know these issues so important.

It is essential to know our history, which has passed through time, our Mayan culture, shows the Mayan Cosmovision and Spirituality, all the Indigenous people of Guatemala, have been the target of much injustice since the invasion and colonization, to the point of disappearing, but thanks to the grandfathers and grandmothers who have resisted and have protected and it is coming to light, it is like a basin broken into a thousand pieces and that little by little we are rebuilding, like a puzzle, the theme of WINAL (calendar months) is very interesting that I am going to share, perhaps for some it is something new, for others a complement, but anyway I am not a know-it-all, little by little we are spinning and weaving ancestral wisdom. at the same time I apologize for any mistake.