Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome to the show Anthropologist and Maya

shaman priestess Gabriela Juros Lander. Gabriela is the founder of the

Forum of World Cultures and joins us today to talk about the Mayan calendar and cycle cosmologies as well as her

latest book, Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya.

Enjoy.

Gabriella, thank you very much for your time. Hello Hello Gordon.

All right. Well, we have a traditional first question for first-time guests around here, Gabriela, and it is,

Were you a weird kid?

Oh, I don't think so.

I mean, weird for who? my parents were fairly open people so and I grew up in a society in

Europe where that was very healthy.

So I was creative, that's for sure,

and I had my spiritual things that were happening to me, but they did to my sister too and to my mom too.

So that wasn't that strange.

Such as, I mean, did you live in a haunted house so was it better

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