Meanwhile my post about the discovery of a pre-classic Mayan mural (100 B.C.) in Guatemala goes un-posted: Earliest Known Mayan Painting Found NYTimes.com I always romanticize about being part Mayan, but if anything I’m probably more Aztec, wandering warriors of Northern Mexico with a limited vocabulary [compared to the Mayans] but none-the-less were able to form from it beautiful existential poetry…

I ERECT MY DRUM

I erect my drum, I assemble my friends. Aya!

Here they find recreation, I make them sing.

Thus we must go over There.

Remember this. Be happy. Aya! Oh my friends! Ohuaya ohuaya!

Perhaps now with calm, and thus it must be over There? Aya!

Perhaps there is also calm There in the Bodyless Place?

Aye! Ohuaya ohuaya! Let us go.

But here the law of the flowers governs,

here the law of the song governs, here on earth.

Ehuaya! Be happy, dress in finery, oh friends. Ohuaya ohuaya.

The Romances, Flower Songs by NezahualCoyotl a.k.a. Hungry Coyote, king of Texcoco (1431-72)

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