Selling in Xela December 21st

We participated in the touristic celebration of the closing of 13 Bak'tun in Xela for 5 days of selling in the beautiful garden of the Town Hall. What an experience! We met lots of people, and were successful in selling our products. This photo was taken by a photographer from a website that is promoting tourism to Guatemala, gt7.es/visitaguate. Of course, this was a tourism-inspired celebration of what was an important sacred day for many of us Maya, the changing to a new era of the long count calendar. This happens only once in more than 3000 years. In Cajola there were celebrations in each of the sacred sites. Though we enjoyed our participation in the Xela event, it is important not to confuse the commercial with the sacred, as you know!

Come visit MayaMam Weavers

We are pleased to say we finally have a sign announcing our location! Now that we are so easy to find we hope to have more visitors. We are in the process of designing a new style of fabric for a cooperative project in Mazatenango, when they come to see the samples they will easily find us this time. And of course we invite any of you who come to Guatemala to visit us in the new year. We will be finishing our work year tomorrow with our year end inventory, then we are on vacation until the 2nd of January. Happy New Year -- and Best Wishes as we change to a new era in our Long Count Calendar,

at midnight tonight!

MayaMam Weavers and Oxlajuj B'aktun

We are entering into the last days of Oxlajuj B'aktun. What this truly means for us Maya is that we are finalizing one Long Count calendar of more than 5000 years and beginning a new one. There are many prophecies that talk about what will happen during the transition to the new era. The most important (in our opinion) is that the change of calendar will usher in a positive change for humanity, that we will be living peacefully as brothers and sisters throughout the world. Wouldn't that be incredible! And for us here in our group, it also means we will be participating in a big event in Xela, 4 days of celebrations with the opportunity to sell our products. This week we are busy getting ready!