In the reading on the Maya I was struck by the image of house as a miniature version of the cosmos. The analogous relationship between the human body and the house was also intriguing. This reading makes me question the symbolic meaning of my house. I was also struck by the notion held by the modern Maya of the Yucatan that the living are “replacements for the dead”, kind of “recycled souls”. Wasn’t this idea of shared identity also present in the Melanesian World?