Stations of the Cross fourteen Stations of the Cross entitled "The Way". It was premiered in 1991. Paweł_Łukaszewski wrote Via Crucis in 2000 and it was premiered by the Wrocław_Opera on Good Friday March 30, 2018 and transmitted on TVP_Kultura. Stefano Vagnini's 2002 modular oratorio, "Via Crucis", a composition for organ, computer, choir, string orchestra and brass quartet, depicts the fourteen Stations of the Cross. In 2009, U2 released Moment of Surrender, mentioning the Stations of the Cross. As the Stations of the Cross are prayed during the season of Lent in Catholic churches, each station is traditionally followed by a verse of the
Ritual of the Bacabs to Christianity in the text. Almost every incantation ends with "Amen," and the thirty-ninth uses "Jesus Mary" ("Jesuz Maria") as an exclamation. "Ritual of the Bacabs" is filled with symbolism that has long since lost its significance and meaning. In his "Maya History and Religion", J. Eric S. Thompson wrote: "The only parallel which comes to mind of the Book of Revelation. Many plants, birds, and insects, all clothed in symbolism and allusions to lost mythology, are important features...even in translation the incantations are very hard to comprehend." Ritual of the Bacabs Ritual of the Bacabs is the name given