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Belize's Terra Nova Medicinal Reserve, established to protect and study what remains of Mayan traditional medicine, is described. Both this reserve and the Ixchel Tropical Research Foundation try to interest the scientific community in Mayan medicine's potential.
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Interconnections between Maya astronomy and creation myth are being discovered by researchers drawing on work in epigraphy, art history, ethnology, archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Epigrapher Linda Schele has proposed a new interpretation which relates passages of the creation myth in the Popol Vuh to celestial events. For example, the paddler gods and World Tree of the myth describe different appearances of the Milky Way. A double- headed serpent that crosses the World Tree perpendicularly in Maya vase paintings represents the ecliptic intersecting the Milky Way.
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A new sculpture museum has opened at Copan, Honduras, to display sculptural fragments recovered from the Maya site. The museum features a replica of the Rosalila temple, as well as providing a place to display approximately 3,000 sculptural fragments that have been excavated at Copan. The museum has also been designed to introduce visitors to Maya cosmology. An opening in the roof above the Rosalila replica will allow archaeologists to study the working of the gutters and drains that have been copied from the original temple. Local Maya craftsmen participated in the museum's creation.
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