Maya Calendar Prophetic Message at Metaphysical Festival

Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague, the Taino Indigenous associate of K'iche Maya Calendar teacher Antonio Aj Ik of Guatemala participated in two major East-Coast U.S. metaphysical festivals in the month of July of 2010, providing workshops and conducting both traditional Taino and Maya ceremony in behalf of the Maya-Taino Prophecy Initiative and the Maya Tradition Circle.

The first of the functions was the thirtieth anniversary of the well-known STARWOOD FESTIVAL which was celebrated at the Wisteria Campground near Athens, Ohio this year.

The second festival was SUMMERFEST at the Brushwood Campground in Northwestern New York . At both of these events Miguel offered workshops, musical presentations and private readings, sharing the positive and optimistic message of the 2012 Prophecy from the perspective of his own Taino ancestral tradition and that of his Maya teacher, Don Antonio Aj Ik.

This effort allowed Miguel to reach an audience which had not yet heard the truth about the Mayan Calendar prophecy as it is being shared by the authentic Maya and Taino faith-keepers.

The presentations were well-received and opened up the possibility for future workshops at other metaphysical events around the United States.

The Maya Tradition Circle and the Maya-Taino Prohecy Initiative welcome invitations to events such as this one in which we can offer a glimpse at the genuine message of the Maya Calendar and related Indigenous shamanic culture which holds out a vital element of hope to a world in transition. We look forward to greater interaction between ourselves as Indigenous people and human beings in the world who seek this powerful wisdom that our ancestors bequeathed to the Earth.

Debate on Taino-Maya contacts heats up in 1999

As early as the year 1999 after much work at the Buchillones Taino archeological site in Cuba the Canadian archeologist David Pendergast publicly speculated that a curious object being held at the Royal Ontario Museum as part of a collection of items found by him years earlier in the Altun Ha Maya archeological site of Belize was in fact a Taino manatee-bone vomic spatula of the kind that ancient Taino shamans and chiefs used to induce vomiting in their purification rituals.

His comment sparked debate on the subject and doubts were raised by experts such as University of Manitoba archeologist Louis Adair, who objected that the Classic Era Maya period represented by the Altun Ha archeological site came and went before the rise of the Classic Taino period in Cuba and elsewhere several centuries later which is characterized by the use of vomic spatulas. Dr. Bill Keegan, curator of Caribbean archeology at Florida Museum of natural History tends to agree with Adair but cautions that pre-classic Taino ancestors in the Caribbean may already have been using primitive less sophisticated versions of the vomic spatulas earlier in their history before the full-classic Taino culture had developed. These early spatulas may then have found their way to a classic-era Maya site through cultural interaction.

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y99/ago99/16e12.htm

Now there is even more evidence arising which supports early contact between the Caribbean Tainos and the Mayas of the Ycatan peninsula.

Posted by Antonio Aj Ik's associate, Miguel Sague