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The Maya used mirrors as channels for supernatural communication. In this image, a supernatural creature speaks into a cracked, black mirror. K2929 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.

For the ancient Maya, cracked mirrors were a path to the world beyond

James L. Fitzsimmons, Middlebury College

Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.

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