X-Family's Yucatan Adventure: Xcalacoco Fire Ceremony TB

To travel to far distant adventure vacation locations on every continent (Oceania is still waiting!) if possible to locations relevant to ceremonies of fire and rebirth.

So far this TB has managed to travel from North America, to Africa, to South America (and Tierra Del Feugo was close enough to Antarctica), to finally Europe & Asia! Five continents!  Any chance cachers will take it into Australia as well?  (Here's hoping!  Thanks everybody!)

This TB consists of a piece of wood used in a fire ceremony, I believe it is ciebus/kapok wood.  It was thrown into the fire by one of my girls (X-Storm) when the Virgin* Maiden Dancers focused on the other (X-Phoenix) and pulled me and the whole family into the fire ceremony!  The rest of us threw our ceremonial wood chips well into the coals, but this one fell just short, sitting on the very hot and impossible to reach side of the large boulders ringing the fire.

After the Mayan fire ceremony (of renewal and rebirth), a Mexican festival started and went ALL through the night, with dancing around this fire pit.  (We went to sleep, I have little ones!)  I figured someone would sweep that wood into the fire at some point.

The next morning we wandered back to this area, as it contained Mayan ruins - right on our resort property, kept for educational tours for the visitors, still embedded deeply in the rainforest.  And lo and behold, on the finally cooled edge of on of the boulders which now ringed a large pile of ash, my daughter's ceremonial woodchip still sat in exactly the last position I saw it in the night before!

So...here is the ceremonial piece of wood from the Mayan fire ceremony in Xcalacoco, the ruined city in this section of Playa Del Carmen, Quintano Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.  May it travel well!

For more about the Mayan Renaissance and Xcalacoco, see these links:
http://www.xcalacocoexperience.com/
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8733941.htm