Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners Ira L. Reiss A braided narrative of two

A braided narrative of two larger than life people

Using psychoanalytic (interpersonal and relational) and systems theory

psychological components of aging

and human dimensions

Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners Ira L. Reiss A braided narrative of twoThe Lacandon Maya are a small scale forest society currently on the brink of extinction. Small groups of Northern Lacandon escaped evangelization by dispersing into the jungle, moving from the Guatemalan Peten to Chiapas in southern Mexico during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Several groups maintained their traditional religion until the late twentieth century. Their cult of incense burners, based on the veneration of Maya