These particular Cenotes are now protected by the Mayans, who still believe they are apertures to the underworld.
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Rigoberta Menchu draws attention to the plight of the Mayans by travelling the world in her native dress.
In fact, try this as you plan 2013 (assuming the Mayans were wrong).
And a lot of the predictions about the end of world are as authentic as those offered by the Mayans.
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By the time most of you have read this we will have realized that the Mayans were incorrect, and life goes on.
For those less optimistic than the Mayans, an "official" website in the United States has collected links to all the doomsday articles and videos Internet users can consume.
The end of the world, according to the Mayans.
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Perhaps the Mayans were onto something with 2013?
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Unless the ancient Mayans were right and the world will truly come to an end today, we must continue to have hope.
The Incas and Mayans in the distant past created stone cultures with edifices, mammoth monuments, and pyramids, and they remain until now.
The blue pigment Mayans used to paint temple walls 1, 400 years ago was made of particles only about 50 nanometers across.
Civilians - the vast majority of them indigenous Mayans - were caught in the crossfire, and an estimated 200, 000 died before a truce was reached in 1996, making the conflict one of Latin America's most violent wars.
The ancient civilization of Mayans lived in Mesoamerica since 2, 600 BC and had an extremely complicated and accurate method of keeping track of time based on three separate calendars.
Mayans chewed on the sap of the sapodilla tree and called it chicle.
But not even modern-day Mayans bought into the coming apocalypse.
Ancient Mayans believed their sun god turned into a jaguar at dusk, and the constellations were his spots.
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