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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Saturday, July 23, 2022

The experience of a ceremonial temazcal in Zipolite. Sundays at 11:00 am in Arroyo Bomba, between Piña Palmera and the tortilla shop. Value: $150. You can exchange economic value with tekio arriving one hour before. Bring fruit to share. Some tidbits. Among the Mesoamerican cultures the temazcal had a ritual function and a cosmological meaning. Its location next to ball games indicates that its sacred functions were linked to the ritual of the game. The temazcal represented the interior of the Earth and was a place of transit between the world of the living and the underworld. It was conceived as the entrance to the "beyond". The location of some archaeological specimens to the west of the ballcourt may represent the point at which celestial bodies such as Venus, the Sun and the Moon descended towards the subterranean region, traveling through the underworld -symbolized by the ballcourt-, to appear again by the east. This phenomenon, linked to the terrestrial cycles, was. intimately related to the cult of fertility.

La experiencia de un temazcal ceremonial en Zipolite.
Domingos a las 11:00 am en Arroyo Bomba, entre Piña Palmera y la tortillería.
Valor: $150. Puedes intercambiar valor económico con tekio llegando una hora antes. Lleva fruta para compartir.
Algunos datitos.
Entre las culturas mesoamericanas el temazcal tuvo una función ritual y un significado cosmológico. Su ubicación junto a juegos de pelota indica que sus funciones sagradas estuvieron ligadas con el ritual del juego. El temazcal representaba el interior de la Tierra y era un lugar de tránsito entre el mundo de los vivos y el inframundo. Se le concebía como la entrada al "más allá". La ubicación de algunos ejemplares arqueológicos al poniente del juego de pelota quizá represente el punto en que cuerpos celestes como Venus, el Sol y la Luna descendían hacia la región subterránea, viajando por el inframundo -simbolizado por el juego de pelota-, para aparecer nuevamente por el oriente. Este fenómeno, ligado a los ciclos terrestres, estaba. íntimamente relacionado con el culto a la fertilidad.


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