Balamku

There are a thousand registered ancient Maya city sites just in the Mexican state of Campeche (west side of the Yucatán peninsula), including the dozen visited by poet Xánath Caraza, where she composed the poems in this text. Balamkú is one of those sites, and most moving to view and experience. It is small for a Maya site, and yet still covers 62 acres, with structures in two sections: one of which has three plazas, the other four, and a large ballcourt. Its architectural style is in the Petén tradition. Only re-discovered and opened in 1990, the site's highlight is an elaborate and extraordinary plaster fresco or frieze, protected through the centuries due to being enclosed in the interior of a building. Native civilization has long been ignored and denigrated by our educational system, due to the colonizing message, and an attitude passed from generation to generation in our societies. The ancient cities of our hemisphere, Calakmul, Balamkú, others under the "Maya" umbrella term, and many in central Mexico, are important to view and study. Xánath Caraza's verses will provide a spiritual roadmap.

• | Author: Xanath Caraza, Miguel Lopez Lemus
• | Publisher: Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions
• | Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1940856396
• | ISBN-13: 9781940856391