Mayan Crossing in Cozumel
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Initiating Friday night, the Sacred Mayan Crossing, the oarsmen will leave from the coast toward Cozumel at six in the morning on Saturday 31 of May to arrive that same day to the island at the beach Caletita.
This event that is carried out for second consecutive year is supposed to stimulate tourism that likes to be in contact with the culture and the traditions of the old Mexico and will be transmitted by various international media. During all the night of May 30 the guests will participate in rites and petitions to Ixchel to expect the first ray of the sun and to say good-bye the canoeists that will row to Cozumel from Xcaret.
At nightfall they will offer tributes and will collect the message of the goddess that lives in the island to return to mainland and to share the plans of good fortune for all the ones that respond to listen to them in Playa del Carmen.
The trip will be of 28 kilometers, seven to eight hours of crossing, to free oar just as the Mayans in the 11th century to the XVI did it in which more than just a spectacle, this is considered a representation, more or less, of the exact events.
500 years ago the Maya carried out a trip from Polé (today Xcaret) bound for Cuzamil (today Cozumel) in the middle of the water of the sea to venerate to the goddess of the fertility, love and of the moon, Ixchel, and thus to be able to deliver their petitions and to receive the predictions of the deity.
They will a participation of five canoes of a single piece, elaborate of tree plus 25 replicas of fiberglass so that around 300 people can be part of the crew. It expects the arrival to Cozumel on Saturday after the half a day in the beach Caletita, where the representation of a pre-Hispanic open-air market will be mounted, as the island was also an important commercial port of the Maya.
Then, at night of the same Saturday, from the eight at night in the park Chankanaab, the consultation to the oracle will be carried out, just as the Maya did it, to return to the coast at six in the morning of June first (Dia del Marinaro or Day of the Fisherman).
The activities are open to the public in general and they will be with free, only being requested the assistants to dress in white color and if possible with typical suit of the peninsula to maintain the environment of the representation.
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