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Where do the Mayans live today?
Where do the Mayans live today?
September 15, 2023
“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.” –Rigoberta Mench’u Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace…
Modern Mayan culture
Modern Mayan culture
August 26, 2023
Mount Holyoke College senior Harrison Gage was intrigued when she learned she would spend the summer cataloguing precious Mayan “poison flasks” during an internship in the Geography and Map Division of…
Mayan bloodletting rituals
Mayan bloodletting rituals
August 6, 2023
Bloodletting-cutting part of the body to release blood-is an ancient ritual used by many Mesoamerican societies. For the ancient Maya, bloodletting rituals constituted a way to communicate with the gods…
Ancient Mayan Laws
Ancient Mayan Laws
August 6, 2023
The ancient Maya civilization existed for over two thousand years before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century. The ancient Maya settled in Central America, southern Mexico, and…
Aztecs
Aztecs
July 31, 2023
Pac-12 reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of the Santa Clara University Matt Fortuna Notre Dame/ACC reporter Graduate of Penn State University Hawai i Bowl: San Diego State Aztecs vs. Cincinnati Bearcats Date: Dec. 24, 8 p.m. ET on ESPN Location: Honolulu | Aloha Stadium San Diego State Aztecs…
Aztec religion today
Aztec religion today
July 29, 2023
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Maya Aztecs and Incas
Maya Aztecs and Incas
July 27, 2023
This chapter has been published in the book . For ordering information please click here. Humans may have lived in the western hemisphere more than fifty thousand years ago as indicated by legends of ancient Lemuria or Mu and Atlantis. A land bridge from Asia to North America was apparently used by migrating…
Mesoamerica maps
Mesoamerica maps
July 27, 2023
Today’s guest post was written by Katje Lattik , Archaeological Research Intern in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, who works with the Pre-Columbian objects in the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas. Katje was a 2015 Library of Congress…
Timeline of Mesoamerica
Timeline of Mesoamerica
July 22, 2023
The term Mesoamerica is derived from the Greek and means Middle America. It refers to a geographical and cultural area which extends from northern Mexico down through Central America, including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. It is therefore seen as partly in North America, and encompassing…
Where did the Mayans go?
Where did the Mayans go?
July 2, 2023
By GUY GARCIA PALENQUE-With reporting by Laura Lopez/San Cristobal de las Casas A tour guide at the legendary ruins of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, likes to tell the story. A tourist, after staring in awe at the towering pyramids, turned to the guide and said, The buildings are beautiful, but where…
Define Mayans
Define Mayans
June 12, 2023
As you ll see, if you take the trouble to go through it, as I did, Copan is, or maybe was, for all I know, one of the most important centers of the Mayan civilization. Well, Mayan refers to the Mayas, an aboriginal people of Yucatan. The leading craze of the moment concerns the Mayan calendar, which…
Facts about the Mayan Culture
Facts about the Mayan Culture
May 23, 2023
Although the Maya are well known for creating a multitude of art—sketches, wood carvings, stone works—they are perhaps best known for their pottery. Driven both by function and aesthetics, pottery became a ceramic canvas for the Maya to tell stories, venerate the gods, commemorate the deceased and much…
Fall of Maya
Fall of Maya
May 3, 2023
The doomed splendor of the Maya unfolded against the backdrop of the rain forests of southern Mexico and Central America. Here, Classic Maya civilization reached improbable heights. To chart a culture whose Preclassic roots reach back 3, years, we begin with new evidence suggesting that the arrival…
Facts about the Mayan Empire
Facts about the Mayan Empire
May 2, 2023
Excerpt from The Watchman s Rattle by American sociobiologist, Rebecca D. Costa As rainfall levels declined, fifteen million Mayan citizens never came face-to-face with their deteriorating situation. The population was exploding, the need for water was rapidly escalating, and the annual rainfall was…
Important Mayan gods
Important Mayan gods
May 2, 2023
The pantheon of the Maya is a vast collection of deities who were worshipped throughout the region which, today, comprises Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Not all of the gods were venerated in all of the…
Mayan gods of life
Mayan gods of life
April 28, 2023
The Mayans developed a complex system of calendars that were dependent on the movements of the sun, moon, stars and planets. The calendars determined the timing of crop planting, the waging of war and the enacting of religious rituals. The cultivation of maize, the most important Mayan crop, was tied…
Where did the Mayans lived?
Where did the Mayans lived?
April 27, 2023
Palenque is one of the most important Mayan cities in southern Mexico. It was a huge ceremonial center and served peasants from an enormous region. We’ve all heard of the huge, elaborate Mayan cities scattered through southern Mexico and Guatemala, but the truth of the matter is that the Mayan people…
Mayans VS Aztecs
Mayans VS Aztecs
April 20, 2023
Some of the weirdest, longest wars around have been on the other side of the Big River, but for some reason most American war nerds would rather read about Eurasian battles. Not sure why, except I remember when I was growing up, Mexico just seemed like a depressing place. That was because us gringos…
Mayan Mystery
Mayan Mystery
April 20, 2023
Unraveling the mystery of who the Maya were, how they lived-and why their civilization suddenly collapsed. The crowd at the base of the enormous bloodred pyramid has been standing for hours in the dripping heat of the Guatemalan jungle. No one moves; every eye stays fixed on the building s summit, where…
Mayan history books
Mayan history books
April 19, 2023
Scholars of pre-Columbian history have been trying to decipher something called the Grolier Codex ever since it was discovered by looters in a Chiapas cave back in the 60s. It s a 13th-century manuscript that may contain some of the collected wisdom of the Maya people. But there s a question nagging…
Mayan gods Wiki
Mayan gods Wiki
April 19, 2023
“ The primary purpose of the ancient Maya was to give a sense of order and control to life, that was their world view. What created their world view was the mere fact that their primary crop was corn and they had to manage the wet and dry seasons which would predict the timing of the corn cycle. In the…
Maya civilization in Belize
Maya civilization in Belize
April 9, 2023
For us to appreciate the extent and the significance of the Maya and Spanish contact period (i.e. when the Spaniards came into contact with the indigenous people in the early 16th century) and for a century and a half later, we must first liberate our minds from the artificial frontiers that were later…
Where the Mayans lived?
Where the Mayans lived?
March 20, 2023
The Iroquois Five Nations, composed of the Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga Indian nations, were the most prominent Native American groups in New York State between the Allegheny Mountains and the Great Lakes. This region is often referred to as the Eastern Woodlands because of its heavy forestation…
Name of Mayan religion
Name of Mayan religion
February 28, 2023
Itzamna, Lizard House In Mayan, itz can mean dew or nectar Name often preceded by ahaulil,or lord Religion and Culture of Itzamna: Maya, Mesoamerica Symbols, Iconography, and Art of Itzamna: Images of Itzamna often contain snakes or mussels and he himself is depicted as an old man with a flower…