Yucatan Peninsula in northern Mexico like a flat limestone terraces and low, it was formed at the turn of the new era, precisely at 2 million years ago from the bottom of a shallow sea that rose. Hole rocks are typical of limestone topography that were common in the Yucatan semenajung. In the northwestern peninsula, archaeologists have found rock holes gugusaan this earlier.
Clusters of holes is allegedly caused by a huge explosion. Approximately 65 million years ago, a meteorite the size of a city hit the earth so as to form a giant kubang diameter reaches 200 km. Abu caused by collisions enveloped the whole space, thus changing the weather, and even lead to a lot of life on earth to die on a large scale, including the dinosaurs.
Swimming Crystals
In the midst of dense forests in semenajung Yucatan, Mexico, unexpectedly scattered thousands "pool crystal" mysterious. According to a Reuters report, U.S. scientists have discovered the origin of the "pool crystal" is not long ago, which also opened the veil the real world of underground water. This dense forest hides many "pool crystal", from which the depths of one of the "pool crystal" that can reach 160 feet in depth.
Thousands of "pool crystal" underground world has formed a mysterious underground water. The ancient Maya ever consider that there is an entrance to the underground realm. The local community continues melegendakan, that in the world of the mysterious underground water, there is a pile of bones, and gold that make up such a mountain.
Researchers from the U.S. and explorers to investigate a number of holes, carrying oxygen tanks, waterproof lights and other underwater equipment. From the studies it is known that the real "pool crystal" This is a hole that formed from limestone rock (limestone), which eroded the permanent rain. And therefore filtered rainwater similar limestone sponge, the water looks very clear and transparent, and it looks like it is made of crystal.
The adventurous divers feel as if floating in space when swimming in the water below the land. Swimming-pool is a shallow crystal Nothing more depth reaches 1 meter, while the unfounded. They never dive into an underground hole, until at a depth of 160 meters strangely still can not get to the base.
Naturally, if the Mayans never made crystal pools as a sacred pond, and they never put jewelry items in it to worship ancestors. In the daily life of the ancient Maya, kubang-kubang occupies an important status. Kubang will also provide a source of water for the Maya, while also providing for their baths. Until now, in some far flung villages in the Yucatan peninsula, people still depend on the hole like this in his life.
In the Mayan spiritual beliefs, kubang-kubang also is home to Rain God, the same as the Palace of the Dragon in the Chinese legend. Mayan count on them to prostrate to invoke rain. Mayans considered that the rain in the sky was the visit of the God of Rain, simply by presenting a "gift", the new god of rain to attend. They put the jewelry into the hole, it will even pick a beautiful girl and dropped into the water, with the intention of rain god fun.
New Species
Besides mysterious world of underground water, in the region also found more than 40 new species of living things such as crustaceans and fish. Under the difficult environment, the species can survive. This water creature living on limited food and oxygen in the water. This is the first discovery ever achieved Biological scientists. Marine biologist from the University of Texas that Tom Iriver said, "Here is a world that is entirely unique. The things that we found there, including some form of conservation there has never been found elsewhere. "
Iriver says the most exciting have witnessed some form of sentient beings and sponges living on the border of sea water and fresh water, it is likely they have medicinal value is hidden, it can treat a large number of fatal diseases including cancer. However, research is still too early, we still need to do a large number of scientific experiments.
Even the scientists also found a large number of prehistoric animal skeleton and kubang ancient cultural objects, including the rabbit bones and even the bones of mammoths and elephants are living in the days of ancient glacial. An underwater explorer said, "When you come out of the water, and told the people that there is an elephant under large, then certainly you would be crazy, but the fact is the case."
Due to population growth and exploitation of tourism, so the composition of the ecosystem "pool crystal" was damaged. Over the past 30 years, areas once inhabited these Mayans, the population swells up to 10 times, reaching 1 million, plus residents from the U.S., Europe and a large number of tourists from other regions of the world. As a result, the underwater world is seriously under threat.
Environmentalists warn that the local tourism business is growing rapidly and a large amount of waste created service business has started to cause pollution to the environment of rock holes.
The resulting pollution is now local people are all in the exhaust into the underground river system in the hole to a depth of 1 meter in the Yucatan peninsula has suffered pollution as much as 250 tons of garbage every day. Every day hundreds of tourists to infiltrate into the open holes, and arbitrarily impair ecosystem composition in it. "We now need a mature and careful design, to develop the local economy while protecting the underwater world is invaluable, it is clear Mahert.
Ancient Mayan Ritual
Ancient Maya offerings are fully convinced that the blood will be essential for the existence of humans and gods. Blood offerings can provide the strength and power that are sacred to the human. With a knife osidian, King incise own reproductive organs, so that the blood flow to the top of a sheet of paper in a bowl. King's wife also participated in the ceremony, they will use a rope barbed tongue which is then inserted into self. Paper stained with blood will be burned, they believe the smoke will burn in direct contact with the divine nature.
Pray to the gods or ancestors by using a human life can also occur in their religious ceremonies. Usually people who are selected as the sacrificial prisoners, slaves, orphans or illegitimate. While praying by using animals are more common than people living, turkeys, dogs, squirrels and lizards and other animals considered to be the most fitting sacrifice to the Mayan gods.
Live human sacrifice was done under the help of 4 parents called "Chac" (It was said that the ceremony was performed in order to express respect for the Mayan rain god Chac ancient). The four men each arm and leg presses are offered as a sacrifice, was a man named "nacom" incise the chest "sacrifice". In addition, there is one more person who participated in the ceremony which interpreter magick shaman (a kind of primitive religion), supposedly said, he received the information while in a state of sleep, the inner meaning of the prophecy he had heard it would be described by some local chiefs.
Mayans believed that after the man's death, they will go into the underworld through a hole, and after the king's death will go to the basement through the orbit associated with the circulation of the sun, however, because they have supernormal powers, they will live again in the country and become the god of the sky. The Maya are very afraid of death caused by natural disasters, because after such death can not enter "paradise" by itself.
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