Gabriela Jurosz-Landa is an anthropologist and Maya shaman-priestess initiated by her teacher Tomasa Pol Suy in Guatemala. She has researched Guatemala for more than 20 years, living there for 6 years, during which she participated in ceremonies with Maya spiritual and political authorities, including the 2012 New Era celebrations. The founder of the Forum of World Cultures, she writes and lectures internationally. She lives in Connecticut.
FOREWORD
The Foundations of the Maya Worldview by José Luis Tigüilá NABÉ kaxbaltzij
(Spokesperson of the Maya municipality)
Acknowledgments
PREFACE Widening the Scope of Science
INTRODUCTION The Contemporary Search for Meaning
PART 1
2012--The End and the Beginning of an Era
1 A Journey into Maya History and Tradition
2 2012--“The End of the World”
3 The Inauguration of Plaza Oxlajuj B’aqtun
4 Honoring the Cycles of Time, Nature, and Space
5 Traditional Reenactments during the Solstice Season
PART 2
Diary of Life with the Maya
6 A Fusion of Ideas
7 The Welcome Ceremony
8 Visits, Past and Present
9 Meeting My Mentor, Doña Tomasa
10 Santo Tomás Changes Cofradia PART 3 The Spiritual Journey
11 What It Means to Be Initiated as a Daykeeper
12 Arrival and Acclimation
13 Women’s Wisdom at the Hearth
14 My Introduction to the Maya Calendar Energies
15 The Life of Sacred Fire and Sacred Seeds
16 Embodying the Energy of Creation and Time
17 The Altar of Purity and Truth
18 The Darkness and the Light
19 The Weaving of Tradition
20 The Promise of Spring
21 The Mystery of Tz’ité Seeds
22 Snake Incarnation
23 The Day of the Deer and the Cave Ceremony
24 Consecration
25 Walking as a Shaman-Priestess Selected Bibliography Index About the
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