Guardian of the Animals Traditional Cache
aka Bone Collector: Missing
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The modern Maya hunters in Guatemala ceremonially deposit, or cache, the carefully cleaned and protected sacred bones of hunted wild animals. To the Maya, throwing away the bones of hunted animals is as wasteful as throwing away the entire animal itself. In fact, it’s pretty much one and the same.
Certain rock shelters are believed by the Maya to be doorways to a realm where a special spirit resides, the Guardian of the Animals. They locate their sacred caches on his threshold because they believe that at night, the Guardian collects newly offered bones and brings them back to his world to be refleshed and made new.
There is a concept that if you throw the bones away, you won’t have more animals to hunt later. They believe that the special handling of these bones is related to the future abundance of the wild animals and game populations.
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