HERE IS TODAY. How to Get to Mars. Very Cool! HD. All That Is Interesting - Visualizing The Size And Scale Of Our World - StumbleUpon. Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: 30 powerful images of the disaster. Huichol ‘cosmic portal’ peyote ceremonies threatened by silver mine. In a stark collision of cultures, the famously mystical Huichol are trying to stop a $100 million, 15-year mining project from starting this year. Their struggle comes as indigenous people from Alaska to the Amazon are rallying to protect not just their environment but also their cultures from decay.
This raises a tough question: How do you protect a cosmic portal? “For them the whole mountain is a temple, and the gold and silver below the ground are there for a reason — they contribute to the energy, and it would be best if they just left it alone,” said Eduardo Guzman, an activist and spokesman for the Huichol living in a hard-scrabble pueblo called Las Margaritas at the foot of the magic mountain. Past Guzman’s ranch gate, a minivan loaded with Huichol, dressed in embroidered muslin tunics and straw hats dancing with colored balls and feather totems, bounced by on their way to a ceremony. The Huichol, who might number 50,000, are poor but proud. Fernandez sees both sides. Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four.