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The Mayans of Guatemala return to Oslo

Oslo had the visit of eight Mayan Elders in 2011 and two Mayan Elders in 2012

Norsk Taiji Senter is rooted in this nature based philosophy. This is our way for including humanity as a whole and appreciating the earth as a natural organic organism. This is a philosophy that represents the wholeness and interconnected consciousness of humanity.​

Through the years, Norsk Taiji Senter has invited people from different spiritual traditions to share wisdom, knowledge and experience. They are invited to explore how spirituality can serve people of today’s society.

 

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Unity Center is Scandinavia's largest center for self development.
Through therapy, workshops, lectures, schools and more we provide for increased
awareness of yourself and the spiritual world.
The center is located in Oslo and has been around for 9 years.

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Øverland Andelslandbruk

Øverland andels gård or called CSA ( Community Supporting agriculture) is a
group of 340 shareholders living around Oslo & Bærum who rent ground on
Øverland Farm from Norges Vel to grow our own food, we grow it together &
as organic & natural as we can. We grow mostly vegetables, but also have
herbs honey bees berries & a project with grapes & walnut trees, a compost
project, flowers & tomatoes in a greenhouse...
We have a gartner who takes care of the overwiev & the heavy preparations &
we plant nurse water weed harvest the crops together at so called 'Green
Fingers Day' or dugnad. A board & news letters share info with what to do
to / harvest / how much / where / when / etc.... so everyone is free to do
as they can/want.
Locally grown food for our own use & with no other involved than ourselves
= untraveld food! & with the Joy to participate in the process of its
making.

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  The Mayan people of Guatemala, one of the millenary peoples in the world, keeps in the past   and  present many values and principles related with the Mayan Calendar and its ceremonial practices. The sacred Maya Calendar rules the political, social and spiritual life of its People, which is being strengthened daily since the signing of the Long and Lasting Peace Accords in Guatemala.

The Maya Ceremony, or Q’ij in Maya K’iché language, is the manifestation of the dialog and meeting between human beings and Mother Nature. It generates harmony between the live beings and the cardinal points. It gives thanks for the life, the material and spiritual goods that we receive from nature, and it conciliates all living things.

The Ceremony is carried out in concordance to the days of the Sacred Mayan Calendar, which has more than 5 000 years of existence. The Calendar is conformed of 13 months of 20 days each. It is known as Sacred because it’s a measure of time that rules exactly the gestation of the human beings and the one that rules the human social relationship.

To honor Mother Nature and all its living things, the Ajq’ijab’ use the sacred fire which comes to life with materials of pine and other trees, as well as with wax candles, and candy, among other things. The fire constitutes the path to communicate with the grandfathers, with their ancestors and with Mother Nature.

The Ajq’ij’ is a special person. Not anyone can carry out ceremonies. The name Ajq’ij’, used to name the xamanes, comes from the Maya K’iche language that means “the one that counts time, the one that observes the movements of the Sun, the Moon and the days, as well as Nature’s manifestations”.

Mother Nature is in a difficult situation because of the disharmonization of its elements caused by an environmental and ecological contamination, and seeks the need of immediate measures to try to save the equilibrium that would prevent the destruction of entire populations, and maybe even the whole humanity.

In the year 2010, in one of the ceremonies carried out by the Maya elders, or Ajq’ijab’ or Xamanes, the Sacred Fire showed an urgent necessity to contribute to mitigate the suffering of Mother Nature, and if this was not done, the natural disasters would increase and with it the pain and suffering of many.

In 2011, eight Mayan shamans (Ajq’ijab’) from Guatemala have brought out the task to conduct a ceremony in four places of the planet previously chosen by them. One of these is the north of Norway where they performed fire ceremonies in the cities of Drammen, Oslo and in Repvåg, in the North.
During October 2012, two of those Mayan Elders, Pedro Celestino Yac and María Faviana Cochoy,  will visit Norway from the 6th to the 20th of October, to continue their important work towards harmonization of human beings with Mother Nature, as well as to speak about the Mayan cosmovision and the importance of being in harmony with Mother Nature.

Donations are asked in order to cover some expenses linked to the visit (purchase and sending of ceremonial materials to Norway) as well as to finance the activities that Mr. Yac and Mrs Cochoy are realizing in Guatemala and abroad to recover, divulgate and preserve the Mayan culture for the future generations.

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