This week I have to go to Maya and sit through a Coming-Of-Age Ceramony, and figure out how the ceramony's work and what you do in one. I don't know anything about this ceramony besides it's ceramony and that I might've learned about this in around 7th grade. The problem is that the information went through my ear and out the other. Well that's probobly a mistake I made. Would've, Should've, Could've. now I am off to see my first Coming-Of-Age Ceramony. Woohoo! Exept I don't know if they will let me in.
Now I am kind of scared, yet the boys are 14 and the girls are 12 when they do this ceramony. There might be some crazy parents. I was kind also scared for the boredness.It wa just a kid that goes around confesing "In ate the last cookie in the cookie jar" Cleansing with water "Cannonball" and reciting rules of behavior "I will not kill ANYONE" Then the priest cuts some bread from the top of the boys head and the priest removes red beads from the girl. Apparently as a child the boy has white bead in his hair and the girl has a red beaded braclet.
The WORST thing was I had already beat the new Angry Birds game and Temple Run was too easy, so I had to actually watch the whole thing. I was suspicious of the priest though, he looked like Jerry Sandusky who was the University of Pennslyvania State's assistant football coach who raped little kids. That would be bad if this was Billy Sandusky his way back relative that did creepy stuff to kids and this would be the time for him to strike, so I would also have to strike back when he did.
I had to sit through the long and boring tasks of reciting rules of behavior, confessions and cleansing with water. At the end the priest would cut the white bead from the boys hair and remove a string of red shells from around the girls waists. The children had been wearing these for a long time to show that they were kids and where vulnerable. With the priest taking these symbols off represented that the boy or girl are now a man or woman and now are their own person.
This was frighting thought of Billy Sandusky just gave me the shivers,but the kids coming-of age looked pretty tough. Then I realized it. He was a counterfeit. The person up there who was the priest was my a lot of greats grandfather. I was an original Mayan. I was a tiny bit Mayan, and that was pretty cool to see how much success my family has had over the years. That's because priests were very highly ranked and that just helped us out the rest of the way. Instead of finding a really creepy guy I found a guy who looks pretty chill. After the ceremony I told him my name was Ahmakiq and we ended up hanging out. he was pretty cool, just like me. The ultimate guy.
such a cool post. I like the details
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ReplyDeleteI like how you were excited in the beginning but then bored in the end.
ReplyDeleteSorry your 7th grade teacher was so boring.
ReplyDeleteGreat details describing things, nice uses of vocab words, and I like how you sat through a boring lecture.
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