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Though their hieroglyphs remain to be totally deciphered, we may soon have the benefit of viewing an advanced civilization built upon "primary technology" taken to the fullest understanding of nature's provisions. In other words the Mayans went about as far as they could go within a category of earth and stone technology. Their knowledge of the Primary Technology (Nature) surely surpasses ours

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They conceived the world as a quadrangular space that was ordered and measured at the time of creation. The gods created the face of the earth, u wach ulew, as a propitious place for human life

 According to Thompson (1960:8), Maya civilization was based primarily on maize, and subsequent investigations have reiterated not only the important role of maize in Maya subsistence, although not the "staple food",  as thought before, but also the sophisticated intensive agricultural techniques practiced in the Maya region as early as 800 B.C

Mayan research into the fields of mathematics, astronomy and the measurement of time is truly astonishing

From the magnificent ruins they left behind, archaeologists and scientists have learned much of the warlike and highly complex Maya society

The Tombs where elaborated and with many objects, the jars are an offering for water

The upright jade axes symbolize sprouting maize plants

Mayans lacked metal tools, they use obsidian a crystal rock as hard as the iron, and shaper than today's steel surgical blades for their tools to carve the lime stone in blocks to build their cities, and for their weapons, such as, mazes, arrow and lance heads, as well as ritual knives, the wheel was used only for toys

wax, honey, salt, furs, feathers, specially from its Sacred bird, the Quetzal, used only by the kings, jade, obsidian, cotton and ceramics, using rivers and lakes as highways.

he maize god/world-tree and the sun god are sometimes conflated in a single figure with which Classic Maya kings identified themselves, as the ruler shape in the stelas suggest.

Their main goods involved in trading were: Sea Shells from the Caribbean sea and the Pacific Ocean,

Cacao seeds

: Chocolate,  wax, honey, salt, furs, feathers

Chocolate,  wax, honey, salt, furs, feathers

feathers

Chocolate

Chocolate