A Megalithic Mayan Site

I have a passion for megalithic sites, and have traveled to many countries to experience them, mainly Peru, the UK, Malta, and Egypt to name a few.  That is why I was thrilled to be visiting this very unique an sublime place.

A short distance east of Merida is the ancient Mayan site of Aké.  It is rarely visited, and there were just a few other people there the day we visited.  It sits next to the grounds of a ruined Spanish hacienda with its old sisal factory.

Sisal is harvested from the very fibrous agave sisalana plant to make rope and twine, which was a very important commodity for the Spanish conquistadors.  The local Mayan population was enslaved to work in the fields and factories here.  Today, there is still a working sisal factory on the grounds.

The interesting aspect of this site is that the structures are built almost entirely from multi-ton monolithic stones.  That makes it unique among all of the Mayan ruins.  You do find individual monoliths in the form of pillars and stelae throughout the Mayan world, but structures built mainly from monoliths are only at Aké.

The individual stones here were carved into a pillow-like shape before being used to create the structures.  Here are the stairs leading up to the top of the main temple.

It is easier to see how the stones are shaped and stacked from the side.

Notice how huge these stones are at the bottom of the stairs!  

Aké is dated from 250 to 900 AD, but I feel that the megalithic construction is possibly much older.  The mystery of how various cultures around the world could have carved and moved multi-ton monoliths always comes up.  We do not know how it was done here. Of course, I used my pendulum to check the energy at the bottom of the stairs. It felt great!  I could have easily spent the whole afternoon there.

Scary Stairs

 

At least they are scary to me!  Back around 1980 when I visited Chichen Itza for the first time, visitors were allowed to climb all over all of the ruins.  One was even able to climb to the top of the El Castillo pyramid with the aid of ropes and chains.  That practice was stopped around 2008. I found this photo on the internet.

 Here is the current state of the very steep stairway.

The following photos are of some of the sites that had some very steep staircases.  Needless to say, I did not climb any of these!

Below is a diorama of the Ek Balam site.  If you look closely, you can see the massive staircase that goes right up through the middle.

More of Ek Balam.

The stairway is on the right side of this photo.  Made me dizzy just looking up at this!

Uxmal, not a very big or steep one.

Hochob.  These stairs led down from the site we were visiting

Becan.  You can see some people from our group up at the top.

Calakmul.

I truly admire people who are comfortable with doing this sort of climbing!  My climbing days are long past.  

Good Energy

When I am visiting sacred sites, I like to test the energy flow with my pendulum. Most of the locations that we visited on this trip were built and occupied by the elite of the Mayan societies, so there were many ceremonies that were performed there in the distant past.   The energy that I was testing for might be created by the lingering effects of those ceremonies, in addition to the sacred geometry of the buildings themselves or to how they were laid out.  Other factors might include solar and lunar alignments, the energy of the earth itself, the stone that the buildings were made of, or ley lines and underground streams, etc. 

The energy of the sites on this trip included anything from no energy at all to a very positive and elevated energetic sensation.  My pendulum would move in a clockwise motion for positive energy, or have no motion at all for no energy.  There were a few rare instances on this trip when the pendulum moved in a counterclockwise motion, indicating that the energy there was negative or heavy.  Here are some of the most energized locations.

Of course, the Temple of the Seven Dolls that I mentioned in the previous post had fabulous energy as did the cenote on the other end of the sacbe.

At Chichen Itza, the energy was mixed throughout but there were a few standouts.  First, the El Castillo Pyramid.

The cenote, where many ancient ceremonies were conducted.

The temple called the Red House, which was off in a secluded part of the park.

And of course that fabulous observatory. 

Labna.

One of my favorites on this trip was Kabah.  We got there at the end of the day, and the whole place was full of the most sublime energy.  The photo at the top of this post is of the wall of masks honoring the rain god Chaac.

Edzna was another of my favorites.  I remembered it fondly from my last visit to the Yucatan.

Our last stop of that day was a site called Zpuhil.  The energy here was heightened but quite different from the rest.  Turns out that this site was very feminine in nature.  The Goddess was quite present there.