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Would YOU Pay the Goddess and Her Pet Snake?
A goddess, or rather a goddess who lost her power, lives in the cenote? Yes. We stood on the stone steps just outside the dark cavern. It...
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The Center of the Maya World and a Powerful Entity
I stood at the altar at the center of the world. It was a simple church . . .
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A Strange Fog and Mayan Carvings on Catholic Churches
While exploring the ruins of an old Catholic church in the Maya pueblo of Piste, in Yucatan, Max and I made an amazing discovery. The...
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How to Manifest a Maya Shaman
A white pillar candle burned on a green wooden table surrounded by a few herbs and a plastic bottle with a bright green liquid in it.
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The Secret of the Talking Tree
What secret lies behind the walls of this humble Maya church? There is a legend in the Yucatan Peninsula about a tree that saved the
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What Dark Secrets Haunt This Pond?
The house sits on a small pond whose lush waterlilies and cattails hide a deep and very dark secret.
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Tales of Hidden Maya Gold
They found gold. It seems to be a common theme in the local folklore (possibly true) stories of the Maya. In every story I have heard
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Are Cenote Dragons Real?
So, in my mind I imagined him. I pictured him usually as red with silver-sequined sparkles or sometimes as transparent, almost invisible.
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Moving Stones: A Modern Mystic & An Ancient Mystery
The following takes places in two different locations (Kaua and Chumpon), at two different times (October 2019 and November 2018), and...
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What Happened in This Cenote?
The stairs were steep, wet, and winding. Down and down they went, in through a hole in the rock and into the subterranean world below....
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Xtabay: The Goddess & A Mystery Tree
We stood at the bend in a path amidst the ruins of ancient temples in the jungle. Before us stood a tree. A tree with an eye—a crying...
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Magical Deer and Blood Sacrifices
There are many stories to tell about this hotel for it holds many secrets. But this story is about a slow evening when the hotel manager and
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Bits of stories from behind the scenes
I thought it might be fun to give you a sneak peek into my journal. It is full of half-stories told by Maya locals in tiny villages, bits...
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Seeing an Alux and Hearing a UFO on the Island of Cozumel?
It was a day of un-tamed energy, a 13 on the sacred Tzolkin calendar, and wow, I almost don't know where to begin. We were visiting...
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A Jaguar Temple and a Stray Kitten
The energy went in two completely different directions on our trip to see the ruins at Ek Balam. We were on our way, road-tripping...
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The Hat That Turned Into a Snake
"This is where the hat turned into a snake." We were standing on top of The Hill of The Aluxob (plural for alux). Certainly it was once a...
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A Real Alux House
There is a cenote on private land in the jungle near Puerto Morelos in Mexico that is quite certainly home to an alux. How do I know this?...
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Maya Legends Come to Life: Alux & Tzucan
Take a look at the photo. What do you see? Want to know the story behind it? This is a limestone formation in a cave near Tulum on...
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Cryptozoology in a Sacred Cenote
OK, this is a story you may not believe... tentacle and all. It happened in a private cenote called Maravilla, just down the road from...
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Shape-shifting in Puerto Vallerta
Puerto Vallerta. There is a thing. A thing called a Nagual. It is an Indian tribe, but it is also a witch doctor. A brujo. I met a man...
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