In the ancient world there are many mysteries, but none as perplexing as those found in the Mayan culture.The Maya were noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture,including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools.They are regarded as the inventors of many aspects of Meso-American cultures including the first calendar and hieroglyphic writing in the Western hemisphere. Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization, MAIIAs album Sacred Knowledge of Ancient Civilizations will transport you straight out in the middle of a magical forest of emerald.This is also an ode to Shamans which makes rites of passage to carry the sacral knowledge, keeping the continuum between civilizations.This way the study on the ancient rituals of the initiation of Mayans enables better understanding of cultures that maintain harmonic relations with the natural environment, their value system and logic of the relations with the world of nature.The use of their experience by our modern civilization would help to create more harmonic and internallyunified culture, overcome the negative experience of the consuming society.Ritual trance journeys have been a vital part of shamanic and eastern dance cultures for thousands of years. Our contemporary approach to Trance Dance brings together the richness of these ancient rituals with some startlingly effective modern techniques. The end result is access into the deeper realms of our self and the universe... a glimpse into the mystical world that lies beneath our normal perceptions ofrealityWelcome to the magic world of Maiia!