Yukatan, Meksiko.

Swimming CrystalsIn the midst of dense forest in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, unexpectedly scattered thousands of "pools of crystal" that mysterious. According to a Reuters report, scientists from the U.S. have found a "pool of crystal" was not long ago, which also opened the veil of the real world of underground water. This dense forest hides many "pools of crystal", where the depth of one of the "pool of crystal" that can reach 160 feet.
Thousands of "pools of crystal" underground world that has established a mysterious underground water. ancient Mayans ever consider that there is an entrance to the underground nature. The local community continues to melegendakan, that the world is a mysterious underground water, there is a pile of bones, and gold that make up such a mountain.
Researchers from the U.S. and explorers to investigate a number of holes, carrying oxygen, light waterproof and other underwater equipment. From the investigation it is known that the real "crystal pool" is a hole which is formed of limestone rock (limestone) which eroded a permanent rain. And therefore filtered rainwater limestone kind of sponge, the water looks very clear and transparent, and looked like they were made of crystal.
The adventurous divers feel as if floating in space while swimming in the water below the land. These ponds are shallow crystal there is more depth reaches 1 meter, while that in the not unfounded. They never dive into an underground hole, until at a depth of 160 meters strangely still can not get to the bottom.
Naturally, if the Mayans had made it crystal pools as a sacred pond, and they never put jewelry items in it to worship the ancestors. In the daily life of the ancient Mayans, these holes occupy an important status. The holes also provide adequate water resources for the Maya, while also providing for their baths. Until now, in some far flung villages in the Yucatan peninsula, the people still depend on the hole like this in his life.

In the Mayan spiritual beliefs, kubang-kubang also is home to The Rain God, just as the Palace of the Dragon in Chinese legend. Maya peoples rely on them to bow to invoke rain. Mayans considered that the rain in the sky is the Rain God's visit, just by offering a "gift", the new rain god can be present. They put jewelry into the hole, it will even pick a pretty girl and parachuted into the water, with the intention of pleasing God of Rain

 

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