The Mayan Prophecy of the Fith Sun

An entomologist from Portugal would have never guessed he would walk into a Mayan prophecy carrying all the signs they were waiting for.

His half wilted face. His broken tooth. Even the timing of his arrival to Merida, Mexico.

The Gods could not have arranged it any more perfectly for him to realize that everything was happening according to plan.

He was the boy who played with the bees and who as an adult was given Mayan secrets on how they cared for the insects.

Today he uses this ancient knowledge to help humankind help nature reestablish its balance.

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Before they pass away

I want to share Before they pass away, a project by photographer Jimmy Nelson of indigenous tribes from around the world. Regarding his project Nelson explains: "I wanted to witness their time-honoured traditions, join in their rituals and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever. Most importantly, I wanted to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document that would stand the test of time. A body of work that would be an irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast dissapearing world."  

His pictures are one incredible journey through different world cultures, ancient tribes, that like nature are being destroyed by the self-destructive political and economical system that rules today. Those tribes called by our western civilization as "third world" or "savages" have lived for thousands of years in harmony with the environment and the nature that surrounds them. They develop great cultures without destroying themselves or their environment. Nelson's pictures will help us understand how valuable human culture is and that the wrongly called "first world" is not as rich as it seems, as it leads the entire globe to its destruction. 

Please visit this amazing project by clicking here.

(Photo ©Jimmy Nelson-All Rights Reserved)

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Mayan Queens - Rodrigo Abd

(Photo © Rodrigo Abd -All Rights Reserved)

I want to share "Mayan Queens," a series of portraits of the 2011 participants of the National Indigenous Queen of Guatemala contest.

All his pictures are in black & white and were taken with a 19th century style wooden box camera he bought in Afghanistan.

Indigenous culture in Guatemala is very rich, and the pictures show us the great diversity of faces and clothes of the descendants of the mystical Mayans.

Abd is a photographer for the Associated Press. His work has been widely published and he as won numerous prizes, including a Pulitzer he shares with other AP photographers for coverage of the Syrian war.

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