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Mayan Rites and Traditions
I am always amazed by our world's traditions. The fact that the same belief in a higher power can have all these different manifestations is both beautiful and worth exploring.
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Shamans conducting fire ceremony
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It is close to a miracle that Maya icons can have their place in the local Christian church. In the Guatemalan town of Chichicastenango, they do. Syncretism is possible, yet only with hardship and the leader's clever negotiation.
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