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Eventually, for reasons of work I have to leave the office and visit some villages inside the country, I hope these outlets as fresh water, I really like the field work, see other places and see people in their daily activities, not by choice I am an anthropologist.
The past week I visited the village of Yayantique, department of La Unión, a small town of less than fifteen streets, where about 7,000 people live. A dormitory town, most people engaged in farming or working in some office in San Miguel service. Yayantique
live the quiet that allows the distance of the cities, kept their shops where one can go and buy an item without the presence of bars they leave out the consumer or a guard always monitored, the streets are clean and quiet, the bus service are summarized in two arrivals and two departures on the day in a morning shift and one evening. Yayantique
The name comes from the giant squid which means "Hill of the capulines" Yayan means Capulin and Tique, hill. El Capulin is a low tree height has a small fruit red or purple, whose scientific name is Prunus virginiana, is famous for that the fruit is highly prized by birds and bats.

Contradiction in the central park there is not a wild cherry tree, I noticed that next to City Hall a neighbor has planted a garden in front, but the local government does little to do honor to the name of the village to tell you that in the middle of the park has placed a statue of Manneken Pis , the main symbol City of Brussels, this is the famous image of a boy urinating, I see no reason to put in the center of a symbol Belgian Yayantique probably seemed funny idea to put the mayor and ended up in the park Manneken Pis central.
The town is nestled on top of a hill, thus avoiding the terrible suffering valley temperatures down, but on hot days or Yayantique be saved, heat can creep deforested slopes of the hill and reach the people, it is still possible with a cool breeze coming down from the north. Apart from a relatively cool climate, the height allows a lovely view of the valley where San Miguel, with its giant volcano Chaparrastique which ends up being its location across the East.

Yayantique People are simple and hospitable, only has two cafes in the town center, a pharmacy and four variety stores that manage to supply what is necessary for the population. The Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of Candelaria is located opposite the central park, has no specific date of its construction and ignores local people, was probably erected in its present form during the nineteenth century (The Chronicles of Cortez and Larraz indicate that in 1770 the church was a simple Xacal, straw hut), the building has undergone several changes during the past , was painted last year, and did it with a fiery yellow, taking into account the sickening stupidity of the Salvadorans in their churches painted white "colonial" is to applaud them get the "right" color and vary recently, churches have always had bright colors (red, blue, purple, green and yellow), but sometime in the twentieth century came up with whitewash, now Salvadorans are so convinced that the color "colonial" must be white, no more!. It's so easy to shop around Guatemala and Mexico in their traditional villages to realize that the true color of the temples is any less white .

is a small town only has four schools, but has two bars that would become the fly in the ointment, the Public Security Ministry considers that the rate of alcoholism in Yayantique is high, but to be honest I did not observe any "metabolite" asleep in the gutter as usual, in fact, the people seemed very quiet for a day at the town's streets, where it is also common to see a lot of dogs sleeping in the shade of the trees.
It says there is a cave called Culquinte around where there is rock art, unfortunately the mission which was not visited Yayantique ethnographic and archaeological so I could not make sure, is to return another day and explore it, the problem is access The dirt road goes from bad to worse, you must use a vehicle that can get around the rocks on the way to arrive, but after all, perhaps the remoteness and the difficulty of getting there is what keeps people in relative peace, living an idyllic past.

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In Mesoamerica tree gourd or Morro (Crescentia alata) has always been considered sacred. In the Popol Vuh (part two, chapter two) narrates that the lords of the underworld killing Vucub-Hunahpú and Hun-Hunahpú to behead the latter.

"Take the head and put it in that tree that is planted on the road said the lords of the underworld, and having gone to get my head in the tree, the point was covered in fruit that had never borne fruit before you put in its branches Hun_hunahpú head. And today we call the gourd head of Hun-Hunahpú, so you say ... "
He noted that the Cup is very important to the mythology of Mesoamerican societies, but also has practical use, we see that its fruits are used in cooking, crafts and art, for example, the gourd to be a spherical fruit with a hard shell, can spread and become a vessel, called crate. Can also be used for the production of cymbals, rattles, spoons, musical instruments (the zambumba, the Guarama and ocarina), can be used as medicine for stomach pain and diarrhea, make horchata and using modern means oil can be extracted , sugar and ethanol.

Until the late twentieth century in Izalco was done preparing the carved gourd, which began with the cutting of the gourd a "once-moon" (eleven days after the visual appearance of the moon after the new moon), which with a piece of obsidian glass or a nail or güiscoyol spines could scratch the surface of the nose, after preparation, and develop a variety of artistic images ranging from animals, insects, flowers , plants, etc. The museum
site Joya de Ceren crate is a nose that was recovered by archaeologists from one of the structures that were buried during the explosion of the Loma Caldera in the middle of the classic period (200 BC to 900 AD) . This crate can be seen that was painted to adorn with figures treating (bottom).

late nineteenth century German researcher and ethnographer Carl Hartman gave special importance to the gourd, I was curious a tree with a spherical fruits hanging from the trunk, honesty is a very particular, characteristic of a climate tropical, the archaeological site of Cihuatan in the department of San Salvador, has a large population of trees or hills gourds.

References:
The carved gourds Izalco by Jorge Alfredo Calvo, Folk Art Magazine July 1977.
Museum of the Word and Image, Memory of the Izalcos 2006.

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The Cup Full Circle

You can travel across the universe, take any circle and divide its circumference by its diameter and you get a number. The same number will get if the same calculation I did on Earth, it's strange, almost magical. The mysterious number is a constant, which can not be expressed as a fraction, it is said to be an irrational number.
Since ancient times had given him, but it was not until four centuries ago that finally the calculation was more accurate in these days of computers have led to the 2.6 billion numbers.
I refer to the number Pi.

is said to be a constant, which is not unique to mathematics, physics and statistics using it in recent years has become a celebrity, which has even made a movie on your behalf.
Beyond being a mere academic curiosity, I have always considered the number Pi as a physical proof of a sort of cosmic design, an order in a chaotic universe, and not that I put mystic, I have every right and the program to be cultural, much less religious, consider a pattern the universe does not mean I put foot to believe in deities. Since I am agnostic I have a timely opportunity to consider the idea of \u200b\u200bone or a multitude of gods, or none, but only a possibility in the trillions, a possibility that at times I feel that it is hackneyed, false and simply anthropocentric.
Pi is not proof of the existence of a superior intelligence, I believe in the intelligence and point (in stupidity as well), mathematical physics can insert the imaginary world of numbers with the material world, to shape our models trying to spread a bit of sanity in this cosmic maze.

And if we play away from pure reason to fantasize by corner of the dreams, I can believe that life is full of circles, we open and close every so often, we travel between facts, from one point to another, seeking the reason for our existence. Things that happen to us, we also happen to us, sometimes we do not understand, sometimes cynical play, we commit evil, irresponsible, but also are the authors of the most beautiful words and the most tender caresses, the most profound solidarity , also the most unbearable lightness of being
I can fantasize that these circles of life have its diameter and is thus the number Pi, which gives me the certainty that life as such, has a structure in the chaos.
We turn then, and this my circle, it must be the third so far in my life, already sold out, that's when I enter a new one.
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