The Mayas here in my community are trying to preserve tradition and one of these traditions is that they do not use the modern “washing machine” to do their laundry, instead they use big stones to do their laundry. They first have to choose the stones that they would use, and they would use that…
Ox’lahun Bak’tun (2013)
This was a special dance that we performed for the people of Punta Gorda at the annual Chocolate Festival. The dance is about how the universe came to be and how we the Mayas believed that the Earth came to be, with the different goddesses and their role in the universe. This was a very…
Mayan Dance
This is a dance that is presently practiced in almost all of the Mayan community, this dance can either be danced with the Marimba music and also the Harp music. There are other too like the Deer dance and the Cortez, and all of these dances symbolizes how the Mayas first came in contact with…
Slate Carving
Slate carving is an art practiced by the Mayan people of Belize. I am proud to say that the first people who started these carvings were my Mother Mrs. Aurora Saqui, and her five sisters. The found the slates while they were helping my grandfather in the farm and they took and started to carve…