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Priests to Purify Sacred Mayan Site of "Bad Spirits" After Bush Visit

taratara Posts: 293
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alright, i'm not trying to start an argument, i just thought that this was funny. those 7 days it says that he'll be visiting these beautiful temples, and other tourist hotspots, apparently with the purpose of his visit to latin america (as if a 7 day tour of a CONTINENT gives him the right to say that he's visited it) being to show them he cares, and possibly understand them a bit more. if he wants (holding back laughter) to understand them, then maybe he should use the time in guatamala to visit the slums of guatamala city (i don't know anything about guatamala, sorry, i'm assuming that there are slums, and that there is malnutrition, maybe it's an imperialist assumption, but guatamala isn't the richest of countries, so i think that it's a fair assumption), that would give him a better 'understanding' and show these ppl that he actually cares (must stop laughing) instead of going to their country and hitting up the most beautiful place, probably being flown direct to the monuments, creating extraneous pollution, and being escorted around by a few well trained diplomats that are completly not representative of the people (it's no wonder he has no idea about how the world works). this trip is a farce. (sorry that i'm not expressing myself properly, i'm having trouble finding the words i need right now)

Published on Friday, March 9, 2007 by the Associated Press

Priests to Purify Sacred Mayan Site of 'Bad Spirits' After Bush Visit

by Juan Carlos Llorca


GUATEMALA CITY -- Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological
site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an
official with close ties to the group said Thursday.


PRIESTS TO PURIFY SACRED MAYAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE TO ELIMINATE BUSH'S
"BAD SPIRITS"
The ruins of Iximche, 30 miles west of the capital of Guatemala City.

"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant
brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk
in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their
culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization
with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.

Bush's seven-day tour of Latin America includes a stopover beginning
late Sunday in Guatemala. On Monday morning he is scheduled to visit the
archaeological site Iximche on the high western plateau in a region of
the Central American country populated mostly by Mayans.

Tiney said the "spirit guides of the Mayan community" decided it would
be necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's
visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace. He also said the
rites - which entail chanting and burning incense, herbs and candles _
would prepare the site for the third summit of Latin American Indians March
26-30.

Bush's trip has already has sparked protests elsewhere in Latin
America, including protests and clashes with police in Brazil hours before his
arrival. In Bogota, Colombia, which Bush will visit on Sunday, 200
masked students battled 300 riot police with rocks and small homemade
explosives.

The tour is aimed at challenging a widespread perception that the
United States has neglected the region and at combatting the rising
influence of Venezuelan leftist President Hugo Chavez, who has called Bush
"history's greatest killer" and "the devil."

Iximche, 30 miles west of the capital of Guatemala City, was founded as
the capital of the Kaqchiqueles kingdom before the Spanish conquest in
1524.


Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    That's hysterical... similar to fumigating the house for cockroaches after an infestation.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I don't even believe in spirits, but if Bush ever found his way into my house, I'd be tempted to have the place purified. You can't be too careful.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    hippiemom wrote:
    I don't even believe in spirits, but if Bush ever found his way into my house, I'd be tempted to have the place purified. You can't be too careful.

    At least set off a roach bomb
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    hippiemom wrote:
    I don't even believe in spirits, but if Bush ever found his way into my house, I'd be tempted to have the place purified. You can't be too careful.
    I got a good laugh out of this. I have a hard time believing in spirits too, but from the many stories I've heard, I don't think I can deny spirits existing. I don't think you have to believe in any religion, but something tells me part of us continues on after death and before birth.. erase the human understanding of time and we all exist forever in the now. Common sense tells me when I die everything for me ends, but theres that side of me that says, what was the point of everything anyways if thats all.
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    hippiemom wrote:
    I don't even believe in spirits, but if Bush ever found his way into my house, I'd be tempted to have the place purified. You can't be too careful.

    :D true enough.
  • BlancheBlanche Posts: 247
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    That's hysterical... similar to fumigating the house for cockroaches after an infestation.
    Maybe they should use a giant Roach Motel instead.
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