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The Yucatán sky glowed fierce and red like the embers of a fire that refuses to die. As hundreds of chattering blackbirds flocked to their roosts among the rows of ornamental trees, a raucous procession of skeletons descended on the central plaza, dancing and streaming with ribbons. The great welcome had begun, and as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto faded to pastel shades of twilight, the neighbourhoods lit up with candles, one by one.
“The Maya believe that death is the complement of life,” said my companion, Don Anecito. “One is born, one grows, and finally one dies. If death didn’t exist, life wouldn’t be complete.”
With a cordial demeanour and spellbinding flair, Don Anecito, an ardent promoter of his Mayan culture, began narrating the mysteries of Janal Pixán (pronounced ha-nal peesh-an), otherwise known as the Feast of Souls, a month-long festival of the dead with deep roots in the ancient Mayan world.
“One has a fear of death,” he said. “But the grandfathers and grandmothers say it shouldn’t be like that. Because the souls come to visit us. They come to bless us. They come to hang out with us a for a while.”
During Janal Pixán, the dead and the living reunite beneath altars hewn from rough-cut saplings and palm thatch. The altars are adorned with flowers and leafy jungle foliage, then filled with cloth, gourd bowls, sacred candles and photos of the departed. Food and love, the most important offerings, are the final alchemy that connect life and death, past and present, ancestors and successors in the Mayan circle of time.
Soon the plaza was steeped in the sweetish smoke of grilled corn. As the trumpeted rhythms of Yucatec folk music filled the evening sky, my friend Doña Hilaria enthusiastically dished out plates of pibipollo – a kind of corn dough-and-chicken tamal wrapped in a banana leaf and cooked pre-Hispanic-style in an earth-covered pit. The Mayan world is a convivial and deeply ecological place where nature, community and the supernatural otherworld are eternally and inseparably entwined. To know it, you need only surrender to its mysteries.

The rise and mysterious fall of the Mayan civilisation

Everything began with the domestication of maize (corn) – the fuel of Mesoamerican civilisation. As hunter-gatherers settled into sedentary farming villages, high culture thrived in the Mayan world.
Starting with the so-called Preclassic Period (2000 BC–250 AD), the Maya, who were strongly influenced by the advanced ‘mother culture’ of the Olmecs, established enduring systems of religion, commerce and war. They discovered astronomy, mathematics, calendrics, writing and art. And in the steamy rainforests of the Petén Basin, they erected daunting cities with behemoth pyramids.
During the Classic Period (250–900 AD), the Maya abandoned many Preclassic power centres and regrouped at new sites in the lowland jungles. Enriched by war and long-distance trade, this was the golden age of Mayan civilisation, the apogee of artistic and intellectual achievements. The Maya constructed a shimmering mosaic of lavish city states. And then, for unclear reasons, their entire civilisation collapsed.
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