Maya to 'cleanse' sacred site after Bush visit

Reuters ^ | March 12, 2007

[tflabo]

"No, Mr Bush, you cannot trample and degrade the memory of our ancestors,"

You know...that's exactly what we tell our leftist liberals here in the USA. Any Mayan ceremonies we can perform to cleanse the USA from the ravages of lunatic liberalisms seeking to undermine our Constitution?

[El Gato]

Is this one of those sacred sites where they ripped out the hearts of innocent men, women, and children?

Not likely, that was the Aztecs, not the Maya, IIRC. The Maya did have some ritual sacrifices though.

While we know what happened to the Aztecs, in a word Cortez, but we don't really know what happened to the Mayans. They just sort of disappeared as a civilization (such as it was). Their descendants do still live in Southern Mexico and Northern Central America, and some remnants of their language hang on, mainly in place names. In fact the paternal grandmother of our first exchange student was a Maya, family name "Dzib".