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| | | Re: Disgusting/Funny/Weird/Etc. things found (Not work/lunch safe) < Reply # 946 on 4/3/2009 11:03 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Exploring,yes. Urban,no. Interesting,for sure... When I was ten,my mother and 8 yr. old brother went on a NEC January Term trip to Yucatan to take in ancient and contemporary Mayan culture for a month. So we got to live w/them in their homes w/no plumbing & eat w/them,occasionally see some ruins and generally tool about like any unsupervised 10 yr old would. One day when w/a a couple of village boys,we ended up at a graveside ceremony at the graveyard. For some strange reason we ended up in line to view and pay respect to the departed..so we did..but what I found completely absorbing was the graveyard walls and the exchange that took place at the little above-ground tomb itself. All the "occupied" tombs were above grade,and when they were "done",or perhaps their lease on peaceful death had run out,they were put in a white cotton sack,and removed to the perimeter. The walls were probably 18" deep,36" high,covered stone & stucco. Bags of bones all around. I believe everyone was devout Catholic...riveting for the already morose pre-adolescent. On the same trip we got over to Chichen Itza,and brer & I managed to get a good ways under El Castillo with our cheesy lil' pre-minimag torches. At Uxmal I got a little ways into some underground , aqueducts if I recall right...there really were a good deal of scorpions,so serious wandering wasn't going to happen..I was 10,not stupid. I saw my mom's diary 20 yrs later,and she was mortified she'd brought us there...good stuff for growing boys I say. The mausoleum pics were great,and some good yarns over 48 pages,oh and the eyeballs were crucial as well....some good random grimness,by & lg. unremarkable tho'...I never get to find any corpses,it's just not fair.
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