actually the makech or macesh or according to language Mayan macech, is a small and harmless beetle that is used as a living PIN. These are trapped and adorned with small colored beads and adheres to a string to be used as decorations by women in the maya region.They feed mainly on wood decaying and the meaning of macech is: " mac - eat / ech-nothing " I mean, he eats nothing, by that is intended as feed on the wood where apparently there is nothing.
