Lubaantun (pronounced /lubaːnˈtun/; also Lubaantún in Spanish orthography) is a pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America. Lubaantun is in Belize's Toledo District, about 42 kilometres (26 mi) northwest of Punta Gorda, and approximately 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) from the village of San Pedro Columbia, at an elevation of 61 metres (200 ft) feet above mean sea level. One of the most distinguishing features of Lubaantun is the large collection of miniature ceramic objects found on site; these detailed constructs are thought to have been charmstones or ritual-accompanying accoutrements.
The city dates from the Maya Classic era, flourishing from the AD 730s to the 890s, and seems to have been completely abandoned soon after. The architecture is somewhat unusual from typical Classical central lowlands Maya sites. Lubaantun's structures are mostly built of large stone blocks laid with no mortar, primarily black slate rather than the limestone typical of the region. Several structures have distinctive "in-and-out masonry"; each tier is built with a batter, every second course projecting slightly beyond the course below it. Corners of the step-pyramids are usually rounded, and lack stone structures atop the pyramids; presumably some had structures of perishable materials in ancient times.
Le soleil en automne, indulgent
Les peaux nues se donnent aux tides vents
L-bas les tempo paraissent
Battre au rythme paresseux du temps
L'abandon, tout s'apprend
The autumn sun, indulgent
The naked skins offer themselves to warm winds
Out there, the tempos appear
Beating to the slow rhythm of time
The abandonning, everything can be learned
Caresses des vagues aux chauds courants
Le sable doux, bel et tendre amant
L-bas les danses infinies
Nous mlangent et l'amour aime la vie
L'abandon, c'est appris, la nature initie ici
Caresses from warm draughts waves
The soft sand, beautiful and tender lover
Out there the infinite dances
Confuse ourselves and love loves life
The abandoning, it's learned, the nature initiates here
On sait dj ces moments
La soleil avait prpar a
L'abandon tout petit
Les les initient l'amour ici
We already know these moments
The sun has prepared that
The abandoning very small
The islands initiate into love here
On sait dj ces rythmes
Les feux d'en bas, ce lascif tat
La chaleur et le vent
Oh tout doucement mon le m'apprend
We already know those rhythms
The fires from below, this lascive state
The warmth and the wind
Oh very slowly my island teaches me
Le rhum aux hommes attendrit les bras
Le rire aux femmes, aux filles, aux clats
Les nuits velours ici bas
Les mmes panama, mmes cuba
L'amour a faim de toi et vice versa
To the men rhum tenders arms
The laugh to the women, to the girls, laughters
The velvet nights here
The same ones in panama, even in cuba
Love is hungry of you, and vice-versa
Des corps corps, amoureux soldats
Le plaisir en ces brlants combats
Tout ici l'eau, le climat
Tout est dsir, on n'y chappe pas
L'abandon, tout s'apprend
Dans les danses et les jeux d'enfants
From body to body, loving soldiers
The pleasure in those hot combats
Everything here the water, the climate
Everything is desire, we don't escape them
The abandoning, everything can be learned
In the dances and the children's play
On sait dj ces moments
La soleil avait prpar a
L'abandon tout petit
Les les initient l'amour ici
We already know these moments
The sun has prepared that
The abandoning very small
The islands initiate into love here
On sait dj ces rythmes
Les feux d'en bas, ce lascif tat
La chaleur et le vent
Oh tout doucement mon le m'apprend
We already know those rhythms
The fires from below, this lascive state
The warmth and the wind
Oh very slowly my island teaches me
On sait dj ces moments
La soleil avait prpar a
L'abandon tout petit
Les les initient l'amour ici
We already know these moments
The sun has prepared that
The abandoning very small
The islands initiate into love here
On sait dj ces rythmes
Les feux d'en bas, ce lascif tat
La chaleur et le vent
Oh tout doucement mon le m'apprend
We already know those rhythms
The fires from below, this lascive state
The warmth and the wind
Oh very slowly my island teaches me
Un pas de toi, un pas de moi
Les bassins collent et bougent tout bas
Tout s'apprend, l'abandon
Je vais o tu vas et mme au-d
One step from you, one step from me
The pelvises glue and move very low
Everything can be learned, the abandoning
I go where you go and even beyond
Tout contre toi, la nuit sans loi
Que l'instant nous soulve et basta
Le moment ce moment, rien n'est plus
Important que a
All by your side, the night with no rules
So the instant lifts us up and basta
The moment this moment, nothing exists anymore
Important that is
On sait dj ces moments
Le soleil avait prpar a
La chaleur et le vent
Oh tout doucement mon le m'apprend
We already know these moments
The sun has prepared that
The warmth and the wind