Ya'ax Che and the Mayans

The Ya'ax'che is the symbol of the Mayan life, is where the first man was born, that is why they celebrated ceremonies and festivities under its branches, transmitting powers between the rulers and the shamans. In the Mayan worldview, the center is represented by a Ceiba and the three cosmic levels emerge from it: the Ceiba is born from the center of the earth, its trunks and branches sustain the sky and its roots penetrate the Mayan underworld.

In the Mayan language of the Yucatan Peninsula, Yaxché, is the name of the ceiba, sacred tree. The Maya cosmogony mentions in one of the legends of the Popol Vuh that the creative gods planted their respective sacred ceibas in the four directions of the cosmos, to the east the red ceiba, to the west the black ceiba, to the south the yellow ceiba and to the north the ceiba white They also planted a fifth ceiba at the center of all these courses, in their roots they located the Xibalbá or Mictlan that was the dwelling place of the dead, in their base they placed the Kab or the land that we inhabited the living beings and in their trunk and branches they established their dwelling the gods, while at the top of his cup inhabited the origin of all the gods in the form of a precious celestial quetzal.

Does not it remind you of the mother tree or of the souls of the movie Avatar? Their connection with nature, they sleep on their large leaves, eat, weave, dance and celebrate their connection with Eywa ...

The bearing of the Ceiba is majestic. It is a dominant tree in the jungles and can reach up to 70 meters. In winter they lose their leaves and according to the amount of leaves that they produce in spring and summer the ancient Mayans predicted the fertility of the crops. Its yellow or golden flowers are large, beautiful and perfumed, with velvety petals, which give a fruit that when ripe is opened so that the seeds are dispersed by the wind god IK. These, thanks to a fleece-like texture, fly through the jungle.