Bookmark from Mexico

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El Castillo, Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza,  was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya civilization. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinúm, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic (c.600–900 AD) through the Terminal Classic (c.800–900) and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period (c.900–1200). The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico and of the Puuc and Chenes styles of the northern Maya lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion. More...


El Castillo (Spanish for "castle"), also known as the Temple of Kukulkan, is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The building is more formally designated by archaeologists as Chichen Itza Structure 5B18.
Built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries AD, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity closely related to the god Quetzalcoatl known to the Aztecs and other central Mexican cultures of the Postclassic period. More...

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Sheep

Thank you very much for this surprise, Karen :) she is cute ;)

Amazing Seahorse :)

This bookmarks are made with the technique "repujado"("embossed")...Done on a special paper.
I really like it! Thank you very much,Karen :)

This bookmark is made of cork

Joaquín Clausell (16 June 1866 – 28 November 1935) was a Mexican impressionist painter. He was born in Campeche, studied law, and later became a journalist. He was opposed to Porfirio Díaz's regime and persecuted by the authorities; he left Mexico and went to New York City and then moved to Paris, where he met Émile Zola and painters such as Claude Monet. Deeply influenced by them, as well as by older French painters such as Gustave Courbet, he returned to Mexico to pursue a career in painting. He is considered the first painter to introduce Impressionism in Mexico.
The bookmark from Museum of Mexico City. The Museum of Mexico City, opened its doors on October 31, 1964. Here you can see temporary exhibits on various topics and go to concerts and movie festivals are organized throughout the year. Noteworthy is the study of Mexican painter Joaquín Clausell, which reflected on its walls left a sample of his work.

This are first  bookmark of cork in my collection ! :) it is interesting and rare :) I like it :)
Thank you, Karen ;)

Cats

Muchas gracias por esta hermosa marcadores, Karen :) Me gusta mucho ;)

Beautiful bookmark it have a very mexican style :)

Painted on the trees.

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Happy forthcoming Easter Everyone!

Wooden bookmark from Mexico, with the strip of suede and ending made of beads.

Thank you very much for this wonderful Easters bookmark,Karen :)

Beautiful bookmark with the sunflower it have a very mexican style :)

Painted on the trees.

Muchas gracias Karen , por este hermoso separador de madera , me encanta :)

Cheerful and colorful dogs

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Woven Bookmark

Country accurately of origin unknown, probably Mexico or some other South
American country.

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Chapultepec Castle

Chapultepec Castle (Castillo de Chapultepec in Spanish) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill. The name Chapultepec stems from the Náhuatl word chapoltepēc which means "at the grasshopper's hill". It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at a height of 2,325 meters (7,628 ft) above sea level. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history; including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential home, observatory, and presently, the Museo Nacional de Historia.^More...

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Prehispanic motive

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Totonac & Huastec culture

The Totonac Culture, whose name is possibly translated as "three hearts", likely referring to three centers of this culture:

• El Tajín (300-1200), maximum exponent of the totonacs culture splendor
• Papantla (900-1519).
• Zempoala (900-1519).

This culture had a large ceramic variety and stone sculpture, monumental architecture and cities with an advanced urban concept. The Totonac Languages are a family of closely-related languages spoken by approximately 200,000 Totonac and Tepehua people in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo in Mexico. The Totonacan languages are not demonstrably related to any other languages, although they share numerous areal features with other languages of the Mesoamerican Sprachbund, such as the Mayan languages and Nahuatl.

The Danza de los Voladores (Dance of the Flyers) is a ceremony/ritual which has its roots in the pre-Hispanic period and presently best known as associated with the town of Papantla, Veracruz. It is believed to have originated with the Nahua, Huastec and Otomi peoples in central Mexico, and then spread throughout most of Mesoamerica. The ritual consists of dance and the climbing of a 30 meter pole from which four of the five participants then launch themselves tied with ropes to descend to the ground. The fifth remains on top of the pole, dancing and playing a flute and drum. According to myth, the ritual was created to ask the gods to end a severe drought. Although the ritual did not originate with the Totonac people, today it is most strongly associated with them, especially those in and around Papantla, as the ceremony has died off in most other places. The ceremony was named an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in order to help the ritual survive and thrive in the modern world.^{More stories can be found here...}

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