San Francisco, California-It was early in the morning on Sunday July 10th when people start arriving from different parts of the San Francisco surrounding area including myself from Madera, Californiac. Indeed, one Mayan family travel from Portland, Oregon to participate on the Mayan Ceremony Wapxaqui 'Batz' an event that was organized by the local Mayan indigenous community in the Golden Gate Park.
On this occasion the gathering was to recognize an important celebration in the Mayan calendar. The Wapxaqui 'Batz' marks the "the day on which the human creation was completed" according to the flyer that was published for the event.
An Mayan descent travel from Guatemala to guide this special celebration. He guided the group to deliver the four direction bless. First, everyone was faced south and finally everyone gave thank to God by looking up in the sky. "Here we offer you our humble words" said Mr. Pascual. He reminded the participant "this is an celebration where everyone is encourage to light a piece of cloth signifying the putting aside the bad habits, stress, poor and demand God health, luck and opportunity."
The Aztec dancer performed a traditional Aztec dance while fire where all the piece of cloth was burning.
In addition to the Aztec dancer, there was also Native American signing in their native language with the rhythm of the drums.
From all four direction an altar was settled which were consisted with fresh roses, copal, and other ceremonial crafts.
The event was closed with some wise words from Mr. Pascual who came from Guatemala just for this event. "Every day is big....let's live it spiritually, live as person as one community".
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