YUCATAN -MEXICO
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Tulum was a late Mayan trading center situated along the east coast of the Yucatan peninsula. It is the only Mayan city that is directly on the ocean, built on a limestone cliff by the seashore. It is surrounded by defensive walls on three sides and by the sea on the forth. Probably only five or six hundred people lived here.The Mayan rich and elite would often take ceremonial enemas from a leather bag fitted with a bone tube. A beautiful young attendant injected the liquid which was either balche mead (a type of beer), wine or peyote hallucinogens. Bud wasn't interested in trying it.
The main gods worshiped by the people of Tulum were the Chac, the benevolent gods of rain. The Mayans believed the earth was flat and four cornered. Each corner was a point on the compass and had a color: red for East, white for North, black for West, yellow for South and green at the center. The Chac lived at these corners.