DENTIST AND THE GOLD MUSEUM
Today we went back to the Christina Suaza Déntica Clinic. Susie had her teeth deep cleaned for $90 and I had the stitches removed from the extracted tooth and bone graft I had ten days ago. Susie says it was the most pleasant dental experience she has ever had, complete with a choice of aromatherapy, a vibrating neck massager, earphones which played soothing music and a soothing video on the blue painted ceiling with a flower garden effect by a dental hygienist who continually asked if there was even the slightest pain. My visit had been painless as well. For anyone who has major dental work I recommend Dr. Suaza’s dental clinic which costs about 1/3 the cost of similar treatment in Asheville. Get a $400 rt air ticket, stay for a week and have a marvelous vacation at the same time.
Then we went for a second visit to the Gold Museum, this time to see the third floor. As I mentioned before it is a marvelous museum with a great museum shop and upscale restaurant, The Columbia, where I had a half roast chicken, a bowl of roasted potatoes and a huge colorful salad for about $12.
What struck me about the exhibit of preColumbian gold artifacts was that while world wide humans have opened themselves to elaborate mythologies, how completely different Amerindian mythologies are from Hindu mythologies and from Judeo Christian mythologies. World wide humans have sensed the power of the sacred and centered their lives on the sacred. But clearly no mythology is the one true way, including Christian mythology. And yet through history humans have defended their own mythology and gone to war with people with a different mythology causing all kinds of misery including the Spanish conquest and often forced conversion to Catholicism in
South America. This museum conveys the power and beauty of Amerindian mythologies through gold artifacts found in different parts of Colombia.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 