The morning after
leaving the lovely Palenque and our short break from traveling, we headed to
the Mayan site of Edzna. I had never heard
of this place before, and we all were in for a pleasant surprise.
This site consists
of structures made of limestone blocks. Everything
seemed to be glowing white, especially against the backdrop of the bright green
of the lawns and the forest, and the bright blue sky. Here, there
were several courtyards of various sizes with buildings or other structures on
all 4 sides aligned with the cardinal directions. The largest courtyard was a raised affair
with an imposing pyramidal structure on one side, and an altar in the center.
An interesting piece
of information about this site is that the people who lived there were the
first in the area to invent cisterns for the storage of water. These were located under the floors of the buildings.
Even though we were in a very green area, they had to develop this technology
to survive, since I am assuming that any rain that fell was quickly absorbed
into the limestone bedrock.
There were very few
people here, and the energy was so sublime, I felt that this was a place where
one could linger for a few days. Because
of that, it was much easier to gather the information on this site. Here is what I got. The general energy here was very soft, sweet,
childlike and innocent. Also very serene
and relaxing. This place did not seem to
have any dramatic ups and downs in its history, just an even flow through time
and then the sudden drop off when it was abandoned.
The energy of water
was very prominent. Frog and rainbow
showed up. For whatever reason, I had
the feeling that the plaza with the large building on one end was occasionally
flooded for ceremonies so as to mirror the heavens. The priest would stand on the center altar
and call in the forces of nature, probably the rain deities.
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