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"Those deities, it's the personifications or manifestations of ephemeral things, time and fears, natural phenomena, aspirations, and many other things that come up in human imagination. They're generally non-human agents. They're considered powerful and in absentia, by they can also be present, embodied in actual works of art or in impersonations by people. Artists imagine these deities taking different forms. [...] How do you represent omnipresence or all-seeing deities? [...] the divine could be experienced and made present through sculpture, and the subsequent activation of images in ceremony. So aesthetic choices were thus theological ones. And sculptors navigated this tension between deity and representation of deity."

Ball court at Copán (Honduras), located between the Acropolis and the Great Plaza.

20+ Wineries and 7 SoCal restaurants come together in O.C. for inaugural event photo credit Max Milla CHAAK Kitchen will host its inaugural Mexican Food & Wine Festival on Saturday, October 19 from 2—6 p.m., seven local restaurants and 29 wineries will come together to celebrate Mexico’s rich culinary and winemaking culture. Restaurateurs Ed & Gabbi Patrick, owners of CHAAK and Gabbi’s Mexican…

Days 3 and 4: The Lost City in the Jungle

  We had a journey of about three hours from Laguna Bacalar to Calakmul, the Mayan city I had most wanted to see. But before we left the lake, I wanted to swim in Cenoté Azule. The Yucatán Peninsula has no running surface water–streams or rivers–but the subterranean water rises to the surface via cenotés, which are underground caves that form in the limestone that composes the peninsula. Back in…