The Rotary Club of San Marcos is hosting a brief dedication ceremony for a second San Marcos Peace Pole on Thursday, June 19, at 9 a.m.at the corner of MLK Drive and LBJ Drive. The ceremony will occur in conjunction with the Juneteenth Parade and Unity Walk, which will begin at 8 a.m. in the same location.
More than 200,000 peace poles have been installed around the world. The first was planted in Ishikawa, Japan. The Peace Poles serve as a silent visual for peace to prevail on the planet.
This second San Marcos Peace Pole includes three languages: In English it says, “May Peace Prevail on Earth.” This translates into Spanish as “Que la Paz Prevalezca en la Tierra.” The Indigenous Coahuiltecan language has no word for “peace,” so the phrase translated for the Peace Pole was re-phrased to “May We Walk Well With Mother Earth,” or “Na-kāi manām yō Tāp Tāi.”
The Coahuiltecan are an Indigenous people that are among those that have inhabited the San Marcos area for 13,000 years. This Peace Pole pays tribute, in part, to the long history of continuous human habitation in the San Marcos area.
This Peace Pole will be installed permanently in the near future. An identical peace pole was dedicated in March at Spring Lake.
Rotary is a nonprofit, nonpolitical and nonreligious service organization. The San Marcos club is more than 100 years old.
