Volcanoes
Re your catastrophe vision that you see in everything. Just because there are volcanoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes in Meso-america doesn't mean they incorporated all these things in all their art. For Meso-american cultures their roots, the creation, and their mythology were far more important to them.

Answer: To use a comment from Mexico a second time: "Our links with other brother cultures will be fortified if we follow the same principles that our great-grandparents followed: respect and learn from Mother Nature."Lic. M.E.R.M, Mexico City