Yucatan Peninsula in northern Mexico like a flat terrace of limestone and low, he formed the turn of a new era, precisely at 2 million years ago from the bottom of a shallow sea that rose. Hole rocks are characteristic of limestone topography which were common in semenajung Yucatan. In the northwestern peninsula, archaeologists have found rock holes gugusaan this long ago.
Cluster hole allegedly caused by a large explosion. Approximately 65 million years ago, a meteorite the size of a city hit the earth to form a giant kubang reach 200 km in diameter. Abu caused by this collision enveloped the entire sky, thus changing the weather, and even resulted in many living things on earth to die on a large scale, including the dinosaurs.
Crystal Pond
In the midst of the dense forest in semenajung Yucatan, Mexico, outside the alleged spread of thousands of "pool crystal" that mysterious. According to Reuters report, scientists from the U.S. had found "a pool of crystal" was not long ago, which also opened the veil the real world of underground water. This dense forest hides many "pool crystal", where the depth one of the "pool crystal" that can reach 160 feet over it.
Thousands of "crystal pond" below the ground have created a world of mysterious underground water. ancient Mayans ever consider that there is an entrance to the underground nature. The local community continues to melegendakan, that the world's mysterious underground water, there is a pile of bones, and gold that make up such a mountain.
Researchers from the U.S. and explorers to investigate a number of holes, carrying oxygen cylinders, waterproof lights and other underwater equipment. From the investigation it is known that the real "pool crystal" This is a hole that is formed from limestone rock (limestone), which eroded the permanent rain. And therefore filtered rainwater similar limestone sponges, the water looks very clear and transparent, and looks like made of crystal.
The divers adventurers feel as if flying in the sky while swimming in the water under the land. The swimming-pool is a shallow crystal there is more depth to 1 meter, while that in the not unfounded. They never dive into an underground hole, till at a depth of 160 feet strangely still did not get to the bottom.
Naturally if the Mayans never made it crystal pools as a sacred pond, and they never include jewelry items into it to worship the ancestors. In the daily life of the ancient Mayans, this kubang kubang-occupy an important status. Kubang It also provides a source of adequate water for the Mayans, while also providing for their baths. Until now, in some remote villages isolated in the Yucatan peninsula, people still rely on underground hole like this in his life.
In the Mayan spiritual beliefs, kubang-kubang It also is home to Rain Gods, just like the Palace of the Dragon in Chinese legend. Mayans rely on them to kneel to beg the rain. Mayans considered that the rain in the sky is the result of the visit rain god, only by presenting "gifts", new rain god could be present. They include jewelry into the hole, and even selects the beautiful girls and parachuted into the water, with the intention of pleasing God of Rain.
New Species
In addition to mystery world of underground water, in the region are also found more than 40 new species of creatures living crustaceans and fish. Under the difficult environment, these species can survive. These water creatures living by relying on limited food and oxygen in the water. This is the first discovery of the scientists who had achieved Biology. Marine biologists from the University of Texas namely iRiver Tom said, "Here is a completely unique world. The things we found there, including some forms of biodiversity there has never been found elsewhere. "
IRiver says the most exciting has witnessed some form of living beings and sponges that live on the border of sea water and fresh water, most likely they have a hidden value of treatment, to treat a large number of fatal diseases including cancer. However, this research is still too early, we still need to do a large number of scientific experiments.
Even the scientists also discovered a large skeleton of prehistoric animals and objects in kubang ancient cultures, including the bones of rabbits and even mammoth bones or ancient elephant that lived in glacial times. An underwater explorer said, "When you get out of the water, and let the people down there that there is a big elephant, then certainly you would be considered crazy, but the fact is the case."
Due to population growth and tourism exploitation, therefore the structure of ecosystems "pool crystal" was damaged. Over the past 30 years, areas that once inhabited this Mayans, the population swells to 10 times higher, reaching 1 million people, plus people from the U.S., Europe and a large number of tourists from other regions in the world. As a result of this underwater world gets serious threat.
Environmental experts warned that the local tourism business are growing rapidly and a large amount of waste that created the business service has begun to cause pollution to the environment of rock hole.
Now the pollution produced by local people all the waste into the underground river system in the hole with a depth of 1 meter in the Yucatan peninsula has suffered pollution as much as 250 tons of garbage every day. Every day hundreds of tourists to infiltrate into the holes that opened it, and with arbitrary damage the structure of the ecosystem in it. "We now need a thorough and careful design, which can develop the local economy while protecting the underwater world is invaluable, it is clear Mahert.
Ancient Mayan Rituals
Ancient Mayans fully convinced that the sacrifice of blood is an absolute must for the existence of humans and gods. Blood offerings to provide strength and pure power for humans. With a knife osidian, King slit his own reproductive organs, so that blood flow to the top of a piece of paper in a bowl. King's wife also participated in this ceremony, they will use a rope barbed tongue which is then inserted into himself. The paper is stained with blood will be burned, they believe the smoke of burning will be dealing directly with the natural gods.
Prayer to the gods or ancestors by using the human life is also sometimes occur in their religious ceremonies. Usually people who sacrifice was chosen as the convicts, slaves, orphans or illegitimate children. While praying with the use of cattle is more common than people alive, turkey, squirrels and lizards and other animals considered to be the most fitting sacrifice to the Mayan gods.
Sacrifice of human life is under the help of four parents called "Chac" (It is said that the ceremony is performed in order to express respect for the Mayan rain god Chac ancient). The 4th person each arm and leg pressing sacrifice, was a man named "nacom" slit chest "sacrifice." In addition, there is still one more person who participated in a ceremony that is magick syaman interpreter (a kind of primitive religion), supposedly said, he received the information while in a state of sleep, the meaning of the prophecy that he heard it would be explained by several local elders.
The Mayans believed that after the man dies, they will go into the underworld through a hole, and after the king died going into the underground through the orbit associated with the circulation of the sun, but, because they have supernatural power, they will live again in the land of heaven and become gods. Mayans are very afraid of death caused by natural disasters, because after death, such as can not enter "paradise" by itself.
