mayas 2011

Perhaps the Maya discovered a better, safer, and more sustainable way of living, and that is why they appear to have "disappeared."

Chac is a benevolent fertility god. He is god of agriculture, rain and lightning. He may be represented as an old man with reptilian features. He is connected with the Aztec god Tlaloc. Chac may be god B. God B is associated with life and never death. The day associated with god B may be Ik.

The Aztec knew Kukulcan as Quetzalcoatl ("feathered snake"). A serpent and hero-god, he taught the Maya about civilization and was associated with rain. He was also associated with the four elements, the colors yellow, red, black, and white, and good and evil. Worship of Quetzalcoatl included human sacrifices.

The great Mayans developed an advanced system of writing,mathematics and astronomy, which they used to calculate an accurate calendar.

And the third realm was the underground this consisted of 9 layers

   The Mayas believed that the world had been created five times and destroyed four times

Mexican archaeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones.

The calendar consisted of a 365-day calendar cycle called xiuhpohualli (year count) and a 260-day ritual cycle called tonalpohualli (day count). These two cycles together formed a 52-year "century," sometimes called the "calendar round."

Early Maya people lived in villages. We are going to study the Maya that lived between 250 - 900 A.D. By this time, the Maya lived in big city states. Each city state was governed by its own king. A city state included the city itself and the farmland around it. Cities of the Maya were very big.