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Daily Fiber Films, comedy filmmakers partnered with the Fullscreen Network on YouTube, pokes fun at the Doomsday, apocalyptic prediction that the world will end on December 21, 2012. The video, "Ask A Mayan", stars stage and screen actors Raymond McAnally and Jojo Gonzalez. The video is directed by award winning filmmaker Mark Nickelsburg. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 Daily Fiber, known for making high quality HD comedy shorts for it's YouTube channel, launched a...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elisabeth Thieriot, a San Francisco-based business woman, co-founder of PhoneCharge, Inc, philanthropist and author of Be Fabulous at Any Age hosted a questions and answers session for the Head Elder of the Mayan Council, Apolinario Chile Pixtun, on June 27th for friends and media at her home, Lions Gate in Tiburon, CA. "I always enjoy coming to Elisabeth's house because she is a gracious host and has a warm heart," says guest, Sudha...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elisabeth Thieriot, a San Francisco-based business woman, co-founder of PhoneCharge, Inc, philanthropist and author of Be Fabulous at Any Age is pleased to announce the debut of her film "Decoding B'aqtun." The film, which was executively produced and financed by Thieriot, was shot earlier this year and uncovers previously unseen Mayan artifacts from the sites of Tikal and Quirigua in Guatemala. "This film is especially relevant to the...
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vida Vacations, Mexico's leading developer of vacation resorts, today announced an exciting photo social media contest for its members. Continuing through July 4, 2012, Vida Vacations will accept submissions of photos taken at any one of their resort properties by member guests. Those properties include: Grand Luxxe, The Grand Bliss, The Grand Mayan, The Bliss, and Mayan Palace. Photographs will be judged after the end of the contest...
According to popular theory, and at least one Hollywood movie, the world will be coming to a messy end next December. However before you rack up credit card charges or tell your in-laws what you really think of them in preparation for this event, you might want to heed the latest advice of Mayan experts who want to dispel any belief that a world apocalypse is expected soon. According to the Mayan calendar, December 12, 2012 marks the end of a 5,126 year old cycle which allegedly brings the...
Insiders Share In-Depth Story Behind the Making of the Beaded Car; Huichol Indians Announce Upcoming Mural Project; Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta, Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid Among Tour Target Cities MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released today by Marca Pais - Imagen de Mexico: In an exclusive interview with MexicoToday, executives from the Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City and father and daughter Huichol Indians behind...
The first Mayan hieroglyphic script dealing with the life of a high priest is now being studied by experts. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said that the blood sacrifices and acts of penance are among the topics being studied. The text of the script contains 260 glyphs carved into multiple seashell earrings and manta ray stingers found inside a burial urn. The urn also contained the remains of an important Mayan priest wrapped in bright red cloth. The urn was uncovered...
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A furious Guatemalan mob seized a man and a woman accused of stealing a child and burned them to death on the streets of a highland Mayan village on Wednesday, police said. A crowd of around 800 people snatched the couple from a jail in the village of Sumpango, 25 miles southwest of Guatemala City, where they were being held for attempting to kidnap a 7-year-old boy, police spokesman Isidro Ramos said. "The people ... took them out of the jail, beat them...
By Mica Rosenberg SIPACAPA, Guatemala (Reuters) - A Mayan protester lost his life trying to stop Guatemala's first 21st century gold mine from opening last year, and resistance may yet upset miners' dreams of a new gold belt in the troubled nation. Glamis Gold says its Marlin Mine, which opened in December in the arid western Guatemalan highlands, will be the Nevada-based company's largest and most profitable asset. The mine is set to produce an average of 250,000 ounces of gold and...
By Mica RosenbergRABINAL, Guatemala (Reuters) - It outlived the Spanish conquest and a crushing civil war and it survived decades of repression by the Guatemala government of the Maya heartland. Now the oldest drama in the Americas has been declared a global masterpiece.The Rabinal Achi is performed annually at a January festival. Anthropologists say it has been staged since 1400 and tells the story of the clash of two Mayan kingdoms 500 years earlier.The play, now sponsored by the...
