The Sacred in Ancestral Cultures of Mesoamerica A path of reconciliation towards peace in the three

[Judi Lynn]

The Sacred in Ancestral Cultures of Mesoamerica A path of reconciliation towards peace in the three Americas.
July 20, 2022 by Pressenza



By Centro Mundial de Estudios Humanistas

The World Centre for Humanist Studies, and the Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas, CEHA, based in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico and the USA, invites you to the Second International Symposium “The Sacred in the ancestral cultures of Mesoamerica. A path of reconciliation towards peace in the three Americas”.

This Symposium will present: the understanding of the Spirituality of the Mesoamerican Peoples from the look of Universalist Humanism, with the exhibition “Mesoamerica and the Feathered Serpent” by Daniel C. Robaldo, (CEHA Researcher). A journey through the evolution of spirituality and the myth of human transformation over the last 5,000 years. Around this conception of the “divine”, this myth of the Feathered Serpent evolved in the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Zapotec, Totonaca, Aztec and Mixtec cultures as Quetzacoatl and in the Mayan culture as Kukulkan, on the other hand, in northern Mexico with the Anasazi and Hopi cultures as the Horned Serpent.

In the second presentation “The profane and the sacred in the pre-Hispanic Maya, by Idelfonso Hernández, (CEHA researcher), in which the fundamental aspects of the spirituality of this culture will be explored in depth. The speaker will guide the audience to an experience of approach to the Mayan Cosmogony, allowing access to personal registers beyond the theoretical data.

In the last part, the “Panel of Cultures” will be presented, composed of five CEHA researchers and three guest panelists:
Invited panelists: Simone Takuáy parejo, Tupi Guaraní culture from Brazil; Rosario Suardy “Maaly”, Caribe Taino culture from Dominican Republic.

CEHA researchers: Elizabeth Llancapán, Mapuche culture from Chile; Claudia Judith Navas from Colombia, Nassa Yuve culture; Carlos Guajardo from Argentina, Tumaco Tolita culture; Eduardo Suetta from Colombia, Rapa Nui culture and Juan Manuel Vega from Colombia, Hopi culture, who will briefly share the experience of the sacred in each of their cultures, and finally the Peruvian archaeologist Cecilia Pachas de la Colina (CEHA), who will give a synthesis of the symposium.
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Let's hope one element of the gathered won't decide to burn the others at the stake as pagan witches!