Caves, or underground openings of any sort, are seen as places of great mystery, beauty and creepiness even by us secular modern types. The Maya and other Mesoamerican groups saw caves as the places where the first humans emerged, where the gods resided, where the ancestors returned to after they died.
Entrance of Rio Frio Cave in Belize. Photo by Russell Harrison
In contributing writer Nicoletta Maestri's new article, Mesoamerican Caves, she describes the ritual meaning of caves and how the people of the various groups in Mesoamerica tended and decorated the caves of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.
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