Cayo Scoop! The Ecology of Cayo Culture

Joe Awe has been burning the midnight oil with lots of history lessons and hypothesis.  This one, talking about the Cycle of the Suns, is interesting.  Many more to come.

"Professor Mark Van Stone, believes that the Creation-Destruction Myth Cycle peculiar to Mesoamerica reflects its history. he thinks that Great Civilisations were utterly destroyed, then rebuilt better than before, but again spiralling down to destruction.  To Dr. Van Stone, this became the Cycle of the Suns; a kind of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny.  Dr. Van Stone believes that the destruction of civilisations in Mesoamerica were largely self-inflicted."

Another interesting history lesson.

"Where in the world did these early Americans come from? This was the huge question Europeans attempted to answer.  Certainly, it is human nature to want to know some answers to some questions like: Why are we here?  What are we here for?  Where are we going after this life?  This is the kind of curiosity which drives all people to organise, culturally, their responses.  There are these two great land masses which have disappeared from the centre of the Pacific Ocean and the centre of the Atlantic Ocean. The people who inhabited these land masses were known as the Mu people from the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantean’s from  Atlantis on the Atlantic Ocean.  These two places have never been found."

The Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation is teaming up with UB, to have this year's NRM Symposium.  It's next Wednesday at the George Price Center.  The theme this year is 'Balancing ecological and social systems for sustainable trans-boundary resource management.'

"The count down to the annual Natural Resource Management (NRM) symposium is on... This year we have attracted a team from Duke University's Nicholas School of Environment who will be presenting on Blue Carbon.  You don't want to miss this one. Talented professional, researchers and works from across Belize and abroad."

The Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation, along with the University of Belize, and the Belize Wildlife Referral Clinic, are having the 7th annual NRM Symposium tomorrow at the UB auditorium.

Part 5 of 5.  Thanks, Joe Awe!  Surely there's a lot more to come.

"There are 2 interesting ideas that we do not agree with in as far as what points to why the Maya developed such high culture.  The first is the Hyper Diffusionist Theory.  This theory suggests that an external culture came into America and help develop the Maya, such as the Phoenicians and/or the Egyptians.  The second is Local Diffusion.  This suggests that there was a mother culture in America (Cultura Madre), such as the Olmec, Zapotec or Teotihuacan cultures, from which the ancient Maya developed."

Joe Awe, owner of Nine Belize and teacher of History and Tourism at SHJC, has a little history lesson entitled 'A Concise History Of Mesoamerica And The Ancient Maya Part 1.' 

"The Maya did not evolve in isolation.  They made up one of the cultures of mesoamerica.  Their neighbours like the peoples like the Zapoteca, Huaxteca, Tolteca, Tlaxcalans, Mexica (Aztecs) – these peoples were all contemporary with the ancient Maya."

The Belize Wildlife Conservation Network, UB, and the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation are having the 7th Annual NRM Symposium will be at the University of Belize on April 17th.  They are having the call for abstracts, with the theme being: Meeting National Challenges of Water Security, Climate Change and Social Development.  The deadline is the 28th of February.