Yaxchilan (yacht-chee-lan) is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, near Guatemala (named after the Buddha Gautama plus the word mala or religious beads*). In the Late Classic Period, Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta River, with Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks") as its major rival [1]. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the Usumacinta region demonstrate clear differences that mark a clear boundary between the two kingdoms [1]. More: Yaxchilan, Mexico
Buddhists came to California and Mexico BEFORE Christianity? Yes, according to American Edward Payson in a miraculous book published more than a century ago:
(Beyond Explorer) DNA just revealed who the Indigenous "Aztec" (formerly "Mexica") Native Americans really were with an Austral-Asian signature from 15,000 years BP and a large mixing ground with waves of migration. Who were the Olmecs with their giant heads? Africans who came by boat or dark-skinned Indigenous tribes from the region?
(Ancestry Code) June 22, 2025: Underneath the surface of modern Mexico (officially called the United Mexican States) lies a tangled legacy of Indigenous ancestry, Spanish (Iberian European) conquest, and a brutal caste (casta) system designed to divide and control based on racial superiority with pure peninsular Spanish at the top. This video uncovers the shocking genetic and social consequences of colonization, from the erasure of native bloodlines to the invention of racial categories that still echo today.
American Edward P. Vining, who lived until 1920, was a writer, railroad executive [1], and author of An Inglorious Columbus (1885), in which he argued that Buddhist monk Hui Shen was originally from Afghanistan (Gandhara), traveled to China and Mexico, and created pre-Columbian Mexican culture and religion. More
It was Buddhist missionaries fromAfghanistan led by Chinese monk Hwui Shan. Vining published his massive text in 1895, yet Americans today are surprised to hear anything about it. Buddhists were in the Grand Canyon from ancient times, along with Hindus or Atlanteans (those from Atzlan?) or followers of a more universalist blended world religion of the past, long before Christian hegemony and the activities of the Catholic Church, its pope, and rapist-priests accompanying soldiers, killers, and slavedrivers to make sure the Vatican got its cut of the booty as it decreed a Doctrine of Discovery to cover them legally in Europe.
Jaw-dropping MEXICAN ancestry and DNA results revealed
These civilizations built great cities and empires that amazed the Spanish, developed sophisticated writing and calendrical systems, and engaged in extensive trade networks.
However, the Spanish onslaught, led by the infamous Conquistador Hernán Cortés, resulted in a dramatic transformation and ruin of the region.
The collision of these two civilizations — indigenous Mesoamerican societies and Old World European imperialists — resulted in the creation of modern Latino identity, a blend of Indigenous and Spanish bloodlines.
Brutal colonization brought a foreign language (Spanish), an odd religion (Catholicism), and customs (mass rape, hegemony, racially based chattel slavery) and a reshaping of political and social structures, often at the expense of Indigenous autonomy.
The conquest nearly wiped out these Native groups, but indigenous cultures proved remarkably resilient, influencing everything from language and cuisine to spirituality and artistic traditions. #mexico #panama #guatemala #centralamerica #mesoamerica
(Evo Inception) Oct. 26, 2024: Here is an in-depth analysis of what makes "Mexican" genetics unique. First, the country is not called Mexico but the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). Who lives there, blended with the Indigenous people, and where did they come from?
(Great Day Houston) The word "Hispanic" encompasses a large group of people whose heritage includes roots from imperial Spain. Especially going south of the border, one soon realizes that it's not related to one color of skin, eyes, or hair.
The way Ana Saia looks throws some people off, but she's Hispanic and calls herself "The Redhead Latina." She shares her Mexican American heritage with over 3,000,000 followers on TikTok.
Her most popular videos include her blond Mexican mom. A so-called No sabo ("I don't know") kid is a child who comes from a Latin or Hispanic family yet speaks little to no Spanish. Because of this, s/he can sometimes be treated as an outsider in the culture.
Saia created a post explaining how to survive a family reunion as a No sabo kid. She grew up listening to Spanish being spoken at home in Las Vegas but continuously works to improve her Spanish skills to clean up that pesky Gringo accento or "English accent" many tend to have due to the culture clash.
As a social media personality, she is often faced with backlash and hateful comments, as if she were an impersonator. But she loves to turn a bad situation upside down. She is advocates against bullying and often finds these situations to be opportunities to help others deal with insecurities.
To watch Ana Saia's videos, follow her on TikTok@saianana tiktok.com/@saianana?lang=en or Instagram@anasaiaofficial. She also makes longer-form videos on YouTube: @saianana.
In each installment, the California-born Arellano answers reader questions about Mexican-American (Chicano/a) mores that rarely get tackled in day-to-day conversation even in blended Alta California.
He's discussed whether it's safe to shop for prescription drugs in border towns, why Mexicans eat so many tortillas, and if it's common for Mexican men to wear necklaces bearing their mothers' names. (It's not, cautions Arellano, and probably a sign that a particular hombre has a chica south of the border).
The column, Arellano told Reuters, "started off as a joke. It was supposed to be just a satirical take on xenophobia against Mexicans, and it just exploded." The column now [2011] appears in about three dozen publications and spawned a 2007 collection. (Buy it here).
The column is remarkable not only for its humor and insights but its willingness to talk frankly about topics that usually stifle even the most open conversationalists.
In April 2011, Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with Arellano about U.S. natives' attitudes toward Mexicans, whether half-Mexican Anthony Quinn's performance in Zorba the Greek or Jack Black's Mexican-wrestler turn in Nacho Libre was more offensive, whether Mexicans can or should assimilate, the effect of the Drug War on border relations, and much more.
Evo Inception, Oct. 26, 2024; Ana Saia, Great Day Houston, April 5, 2024: Gustavo Arellano (OCweekly.com), Reason TV, 2011; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Happy Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), which begins at sundown tonight!
The sun is eclipsing over Easter Island and the Americas (Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay),
Israel is at war in the Middle East,
the Neo-Nazis are being rounded up in Los Angeles, and
Mexico is installing its first Jewish president (not to mention its historic post-patriarchal first female head of state, as if the Catholic patriarchy were losing grip and influence in Mexico and around the Catholic world known loosely as the Holy Roman Imperial Christendom since most of the world's post-colonial Christians are of the Catholic variety).
It's Springtime of Netanyahu and a German comic should write a musical about it as the great American comedian did for Hitler because they are very different and it would generate good ticket sales.
Rosh Hashanah
JuBus prefer Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
(Hebrew רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, lit. "head of the year") is the New Year in Judaism. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה, lit. "day of shouting and shofar blasting"). It is the first of the High Holy Days (יָמִים נוֹרָאִים, "Days of Awe/Fear"), as specified by Leviticus 23:23–25 [1] that occur in the late summer/early autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
Let's strive for a rainbow body
Rosh Hashanah begins ten days of penitence, culminating in Yom Kippur, as well as beginning the cycle of autumnal religious festivals running through Sukkot, which end on Shemini Atzeret in Israel and Simchat Torah everywhere else.
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day observance and celebration that begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. In contrast to the ecclesiastical lunar new year on the first day of the first month Nisan, the spring Passover month which marks Israel's exodus from Egypt, Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the civil year, according to the teachings of Judaism, and is the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, allegedly and allegorically the first man and [second] woman [after Lilith], according to the Hebrew Bible, as well as the initiation of humanity's role in Gods' [the words of "God" always being plural in the Bible] world. More: Rosh Hashanah
An American country gets a female president before the USA does?
I promise to be Mexican first, Jewish second, but we'll see because Israel's calling and needs favor
We use "American" as if it means citizen of the United States, but there are at least four Americas (North, Meso, Central, and South), and all the people living on the continent are rightfully "Americans." In the Americas there is one special country, which although part of North America, gets no such credit. A special designation of "Mesoamerica" was given it, a middle land between central and north, one full of vast cultural treasures as the former site of various empires (Mexica, Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Toltec).
Of course, following Columbus and the Conquistadores, the whole place was overrun by Europeans who have mixed and blended in. Among them, from the beginning, were Crypto-Jews or Conversos from Spain and elsewhere, forced to renounce their Sephardic Jewish identity and become Catholic at least in name. It has been more than 500 years of European oppression, for Jews (who seem to have been thrown out of a whole list of at least 20 countries over the centuries, according to Eric Dubay and established historians) as well as the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the native population of many now independent countries up and down the Americas.
There was a Japanese leader before there was a Jewish president, but today at last not only a Jew but a woman has been raised to the ceremonial position of "president." Will Kamala Harris be next so the U.S. can stop being the laughingstock of regressive politics and policies like its death penalty, pollution rates, poverty, and hypocrisy? Not if patriarch Trump and handsome Vance and their Turn Back The Clock (MAGA) movement have anything to say about it.
'It is inspiring': Salinas residents react to Mexico's first female president
Claudia (R) beat her indigenous opponent Xochitl
(KSBW Action News) Oct. 2, 2024: "It is inspiring": Salinas residents react to Mexico's first female [and first Jewish] president.
We found a lost world in Mexico | Vestigios de una civilización desconocida
(The ARX Project) SAN MIGUEL IXTAPAN, Tejupilco de Hidalgo - Less than three hours from Mexico City lies a lost world of deep basalt canyons, towering mountain peaks, secret caves, and mysterious megalithic stone monuments left by an as yet unknown civilization that could have a connection to the cultures of Peru and South America.
[NOTE: The country of Mexico is in North America, but as that is an unpopular thing to say politically and economically, an additional designation was created to distinguish it from North, Central, and South America, and that is called Mesoamerica. The Americas are contiguous and connected.]
In June 2024, The ARX Project Team conducted a successful exploration of the upper course of the Aquiagua ["Here water"] River near the San Miguel Ixtapan Archeological Zone, documenting and mapping a large number of ancient structures including rock shelters, stone terraces and bridges, and a megalithic quarry, containing a huge 25-ton partially carved stone slab.
Evidence strongly suggests that the Aquiagua River provided a direct communication route between the Pacific Ocean and the central Mexican altiplano, by way of the Balsas River.
Explore the mysterious ruins of San Miguel Ixtapan here: • Mysterious Tiwanaku-style Megaliths o...
Future flag design for the great Amero Union
(SPANISH TRANSLATION) EN ESPAÑOL: A menos de tres horas de la Ciudad de México se encuentra un mundo perdido de profundos cañones de basalto, cuevas ocultas, y misteriosos monumentos megalíticos dejados por una civilización todavía desconocida que podría tener alguna conexión con las antiguas culturas de Perú y Sudamérica.
En junio de 2024, nuestro equipo de investigadores recorrió el cauce del Río Aquiagua, cerca de la Zona Arqueológica de San Miguel Ixtapan, documentando una gran cantidad de estructuras de piedra y terrazas sepultadas por la espesa vegetación, así como una impresionante cantera megalítica con piedras de más de 25 toneladas.
Estos hallazgos sugieren que el Río Aquiagua fue usado por los antiguos pobladores de esta región como una importante ruta de comunicación entre el Océano Pacífico, la cuenca del Río Balsas y el Centro de México.
Conoce mas sobre este misteriosa zona arqueológica aqui: • Mysterious Tiwanaku-style Megaliths o... #ArxprojectMX #exploration #archaeology #mexicoantiguo
The ARX Project, July 15, 2024; Crystal Quintero, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I love Mehheeko - Rosarito, Cabo, Taco Bell, tequila. I also speak a little Mexican. - Wow, BJ!
Let's go to Puebla, Mexico, to see 5 de Mayo celebration highlights
(Where the Jones) Where the Jones? We're the Jones family, and this channel is about where the Jones family is on planet earth. The goal is to travel and visit as many places as possible while at the same time showing the audience a genuine experience full of data. Let's go to the only place in Mexico that celebrates Cinco de Mayo: PUEBLA. My camera was a foot in the air for two hours! To see everything we travel with, check out the Jones Amazon shop for camera equipment to trekking gear to upset stomach remedy while traveling.
We're Mexican Buddhists with battered brains, searching for a future, world is our aim. Gimme gimme your hand, gimme gimme your mind, gimme gimme this, gimme gimme that... (Germs, "Lexicon Devil").
There's Buddhism in Mexico? Yes, Buddhism arrived in Mexico (Fusang), including California (Alta and Baja) which was part of Mexico, long before there was a United States of America, according to American historians Edward P. Vining (1885) and Rick Fields (1992).
Now let's get it straight. It's not Chinko dee May-yo but rather Sin-Koh deh My-Oh (Cinco de Mayo or \ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo\), Spanish for the "Fifth of May."
Spanish is NOT the language of Mexico. This is the imperial language of Spanish oppressors. The UMS (United Mexican States) has various indigenous languages, the most popular being Nahuatl ([naw-wah\).
Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on the fifth day of May to celebrate Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 [1,2], led by General Ignacio Zaragoza.
So May 5th is NOT like July 4th, the USA's Fourth of July, because it is not an Independence Day for Mexico. That falls on September 16th, El Grito de Dolores.
One day we three will be the Amero Union (AU)
Gen. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness, and a larger French force ultimately defeated the Mexican army at the Second Battle of Puebla and occupied Mexico City.
However, following the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the United States began lending money and guns to the Mexican Liberals, pushing France and Mexican Conservatives to the edge of defeat.
This virgin Margarita is a nice girl, not too salty.
At the opening of the French chambers in January 1866, French madman Napoleon III announced that he would withdraw French troops from Mexico.
In reply to a French request for American neutrality, the American Secretary of State William H. Seward replied that French withdrawal from Mexico should be unconditional.
Empire vs. Empire: US vs. France vs. Spain
This observance is MORE popular in the United States than in Mexico [3, 4], almost certainly because Americans think it is their southern neighbor's independence day and just can't imagine that it is not.
Cinco de Mayo has become a celebration of Mexican-American (Xicano) culture [5, 6, 7]. Celebrations began in Columbia, California, where they have been observed annually since 1862 [8].
It's not "Mexico" (Land of the Mexica tribe). Its real name is the "United Mexican States."
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Mexico is beautiful and amazingly old, home of the largest pyramid in the world called Cholula.
The day gained nationwide popularity beyond those of Mexican-American heritage in the 1980s due to advertising campaigns by alcohol purveyors (beer, wine, and tequila companies). Today, Cinco de Mayo generates beer sales on par with the Super Bowl [9].
In Mexico, the commemoration of the battle continues to be mostly ceremonial, such as through military parades or battle reenactments but not everywhere in Mexico.
The City of Puebla marks the event with various festivals and reenactments of the battle.
Cinco de Mayo inspires patriotism or at least pride in our Mexican heritage and is therefore sometimes still mistaken for Mexican Independence Day — the most important national holiday in Mexico — which is celebrated on September 16.
Independence Day commemorates the Cry (Grito) of Dolores in 1810, which initiated the Mexican War of Independence from imperial Spain [1, 10].
Cinco de Mayo has been referenced and featured in entertainment media and has become an increasingly global celebration of Mexican culture, cuisine, and heritage. Everyone loves it, few more than the gringos in El Norte (North America). More: Cinco de Mayo
PRX (PRI's The World, theworld.org for more info, March 10, 2009); The Jones Family, 2019; George Stephanopoulos, "Cinco de Mayo: A Brief History" (ABC News, 2016); Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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