LONDON: As thousands of mystics, New Age dreamers and fans of pre-Hispanic culture have been drawn to Mexico in hopes of witnessing great things when the day in an old Maya calendar dubbed "the end of the world" dawns on Friday, many of today's ethnic Maya cannot understand the fuss.
Mostly Christian, ethnic Mayans have looked on in wonder at the influx of tourists to ancient cities in southern Mexico and Central America whose heyday passed hundreds of years ago. "It's a psychosis, a fad," the Telegraph quoted psychologist Vera Rodriguez, a Mexican of Maya descent living in Izamal, Yucatan state, as saying. "I think it's bad for our society and our culture," Rodriguez said.
Watching busloads of white-haired pensioners and dreadlocked backpackers pile into their heartland, Maya old and young roll their eyes at the suggestion the world will end.
"We don't believe it," Socorro Poot, a housewife and mother of three in Holca, a village about 25 miles from Chichen Itza, said. "Nobody knows the day and the hour. Only God knows."
Mostly Christian, ethnic Mayans have looked on in wonder at the influx of tourists to ancient cities in southern Mexico and Central America whose heyday passed hundreds of years ago. "It's a psychosis, a fad," the Telegraph quoted psychologist Vera Rodriguez, a Mexican of Maya descent living in Izamal, Yucatan state, as saying. "I think it's bad for our society and our culture," Rodriguez said.
Watching busloads of white-haired pensioners and dreadlocked backpackers pile into their heartland, Maya old and young roll their eyes at the suggestion the world will end.
"We don't believe it," Socorro Poot, a housewife and mother of three in Holca, a village about 25 miles from Chichen Itza, said. "Nobody knows the day and the hour. Only God knows."
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