"I wrapp'd myself in grandeur then, / And donn'd a visionary crown; / Yet it was not that Fantasy / Had thrown her mantle over me, / But that, among the rabble--men-- / Lion ambition is chain'd down, / And crouches to a keeper's hand; / Not so in deserts where the grand-- / The wild--the terrible conspire / With their own breath to fan his fire." --Poe, "Tamerlaine"
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Sea God Shrine

October 22, 2006

Maya Shrine, Postclassic Era. Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, México

Perhaps the coolest of the many, many mindblowingly cool things I photographed during my trip to the Yucatan peninsula. I found this shrine at the edge of the jungle overlooking the beach a little over a mile south of my hotel. The jaunty hat it appears to be wearing is a cactus. And yes, leaning against the entrance is the barnacle-encrusted, sea-worn glass cathode of a 1970s-era television.

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