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Redwood City Cache found February 2001

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                  2         9 11 13
                        5    12     15 21 22 23 24 25
            1         4 6 8
                  3      7       14      26   27 28 29

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cover stone RWC#2CA-ca01

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Screaming Mouth bust RWC#2CA-ca02 & RWC#2CA-ca03

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Quincunz Itz Stones W, N, C, S, & E
RWC#2CA-ca05,
RWC#2CA-ca04, RWC#2CA-ca06, RWC#2CA-ca08,
RWC#2CA-ca07

Quincunz Itz Stones

                      A shaman would carry his own Quincunz Itz stones with him and use them
                in conjunction with another set as a part of his ceremonies. Five ceremonial
                stones are used by the Maya shaman to mark the four cardinal directions of
                north (white), east (yellow), west (black), and south (red). In the Maya home,
                the fifth stone (green) centers their world at the hearth and opens a portal to the
                Otherworld. The significance of the four cardinal direction stones is they
                match that area of the elliptic on the center stone. The images carved or
                painted on this center stone represent the Maya cosmos, a celestial sphere of
                the night sky and their constellations. The five stones form a cohesive
                earthly and cosmic structure in Maya everyday life. The stones oriented and
                centered their homes, altars, courts, yards, cultivated fields, graves,
                villages, towns, and public and ceremonial buildings in pyramid complexes.
                Because of this practice the Quincunz Its stones are the most common artifact
                with this cache containing two examples, a large set and a small set.

                     What is Itz? For the Maya it is many things, a mother's milk, blood, sweat
                from a human body, tears, the sap of a tree (especially copal the resin used
                as incense), melted wax dripping down the side of a candle, the rust on metal,
                special stones, and crystals. They are all blessed substance of the sky that
                flow through the portal to the Otherworld to nourish and to sustain their
                gods. From the other side Itzamna opens the portal and sends Itz through to
                nourish and to sustain humanity in all its diversity.