It seems to me that the most à propos food to take in on this solstice night is : Theobroma cacao—”food of the gods.”
I don’t know if the Mayans got their calendar from the Olmecs too, but it looks like they got they got the Kakawa, that is chocolate, from Olmec.
“The Maya derived a lot of their high culture from the Olmec,” said Coe, also professor emeritus of anthropology at Yale. “Even the word ‘cacao’ is not a native Maya word—it’s Olmec.” The Olmec lived in the southern Gulf of Mexico between 1500 and 500 B.C., and their influence extended to Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica, and El Salvador.
“The new find is hard chemical evidence that the Mayans were drinking chocolate in 500 B.C.,” said Coe, suggesting that people were cultivating the cacao tree long before the Maya civilization, which flourished in southern Mexico, the Yucatán, and the highlands of Belize between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1500. source
& this is how I made our heavenly solstice Xocalatl —the original hot chocolate in Aztec culture:
1/2 bar of organic 80% cacao
1 cup of home made almond milk
1 tbsp arrowroot
Raw agave nectar to taste
1 cup of whole milk
Melt cocoa with almond milk, add arrowroot & bring to a boil & whisk. It will thicken, add the milk, bring to a boil again. Whisk again. Strain and serve.
Happy Solstice everyone!
Looks like just the right thing for an ‘after walk in the snow’ toddy. I’m just about to dab my wee tootsies into the frozen tundra we have here today. Pity there will be no ‘Solstice Delight’ upon my return. The poor Mayans take so much grief over their 395 year calendar. When it ended they just carried on as we did after the K2000 end of the world. Never fear, there will be more doom and gloom promises for next year. Me, I’m going to have a good time! Hope you all do as well.