Palenque

There's something beautifully wonderful yet hauntingly sad about the video that it can bring a tear to the eye. Perhaps its the echoes of the Mayans footsteps treading the stairs in their bright clothes and feathers, the cool shade of trees giving shelter to the weary feet of pilgrims, or the beauty left after the fall from grace. Whatever it is, Palenque is a wonderful magickal place that has captured my heart forever...Here in Kalak'mul I reside, but forever my heart is with Pakal in Palenque...

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WHISPERS OF SUBTERANEAN WORLDS
Many Mayan natives speak of 'great noises that shake the earth' which they have experienced in the vicinity of the old tunnel networks in Palenque and nearby Kalak'mul. In the ruined cities along the borders of the states of Tehuantepec there is this Oohah, at certain hours of the day or at dawn, with an errie mysterious vibrant drumming, which is heard coming from afar over the jungle and ranges.

One such dead city stands on a Mesa girdled by cliffs. The region is covered with shrouded pyramids to which lead ancient roadways of massive paved blocks. In the vaults of this dead city, the Indians of Chiapas say there are hidden and guarded by the ghosts of Mayan priest rulers, 'books written on gold leaves recording the history of ancient things and races of Ante-diluvian and later Mayan times'.

The Indians declare that the drumming emanates from those ghost priests and comes from the stone vaults of a great temple where there was once worshiped 'The Ruler of the Universe'. One day, say the Indians, will the cycle of life and events come full circle and the ancient people will return and re-introduce a golden age.

Elsewhere in the mountain wilderness of south western Darien, old legend says that the stone city called Dahyba had a secret subteranean tunnel at the bottom of a cavern, where strange rites of the underworld were performed. Native whispers say these rites still continue even today.

Source: The lost world of Agharti



KALAK'MUL
Kalak'mul (Calakmul) is the 'City of the Two Adjacent Pyramids' and was the major seat of power of the Kaan or "Kingdom of the Snake", which first arose further north but built Kalak'mul into a Late Classic Era superpower ally of Caracol and rival to Tikal. A series of 11 painted vessels, dubbed Dynastic Vases, describe the ascensions of the Kaan rulers, including ancestral and legendary figures. Kalak'mul probably supported a population of over 50,000, and so far more than 6,250 structures have been discovered in an area of up to 70 square kilometers with a substantial northern wall and a series of water management features. Kalak'mul's reservoirs include the largest in the Maya world delineating a dense core of 22 square kilometers. Kalak'mul's 45 meter pyramid "Structure 2" is the largest Classic Era Maya temple platform known and many of the city's monuments and structures are constructed of chalky local limestone, which has made interpretation of the site difficult.


Kalak'mul

KNOWN RULERS OF KALAK'MUL
* Unknown: Yuknoom Ch'een I * c.520–546: Tuun K'ab' Hix * c.561–572: Sky Witness * 572–579: First Axewielder * 579–c.611: Scroll Serpent * c.619: Yuknoon Chan * 622–630: Tajoom Uk'ab' K'ak' * 630–636: Yuknoom Head * 636–686: Yuknoom the Great * 686–c.695: Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ak' * c695: Split Earth * c.702–c.731: Yuknoom Took' K'awil * c.736: Wamaw K'awil * c.741: Ruler Y * c.751: Ruler Z * c.771–c.789: B'olon K'awil * c.849: Chan Pet * c.909: Aj Took'
Sources: Answers.com and Wikipedia

Kalakmul Coordinates: 18°07'21?N, 89°47'00?W


Kalak'mul and its great Biosphere Reserve







Our family Shaman welcomes you to Kalak'mul with the blessings of the gods and may your stay here be a happy one..