The Maya Civilisation

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  5. Here’s 15 Facts About the Maya Civilization
    THEIR PYRAMIDS AND CITIES ARE STILL BEING DISCOVERED. …
    THEY WERE CHOCOLATE EATERS. …
    THEY HAD A COMPLICATED SYSTEM OF HIEROGLYPHS. …
    AN ACCIDENTAL ARCHAEOLOGIST CRACKED MAYAN HANDWRITING. …
    THE MAYA WROTE BOOKS … …
    THEIR CALENDAR, WHILE COMPLEX, DID NOT PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD. …
    THEY HAD PRETTY INTENSE BEAUTY REGIMENS.

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  8. I saw this in the internet The ancient Maya had a complex pantheon of deities whom they worshipped and offered human sacrifices. Rulers were believed to be descendants of the gods and their blood was the ideal sacrifice, either through personal bloodletting or the sacrifice of captives of royal blood. The Mayan vision of the universe is divided into multiple levels, above and below earth, positioned within the four directions of north, south, east and west. After death, the soul was believed to go to the Underworld, Xibalba (shee bal bah), a place of fright where sinister gods tested and tricked their unfortunate visitors.

    As with all Myths about Gods and Goddesses – Mayan creational mythology discuss connections with being from other realms who came to Earth to seed the planet. Many people connect the story of the Popol Vuh with a story of extraterrestrial Gods who came to earth and made man in their own image. When they first created man, he was perfect, living as long as the gods and having all of their abilities. Fearing their ‘creation’, the gods destroyed them. In the next evolution, a lower form of entity was created, ‘human’, as he exists today. Within Mayan culture they have legends of visiting Gods from outer space. As in all creational myths, religions, and prophecies, the gods promise to return one day.

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    1. That’s really interesting, thanks Conray! Please remember to cite your sources though (tell us who wrote it or where you found the information) 🙂

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    1. Obsidian is considered to be sharper than the sharpest metals. Even the ancient Egyptians used them in warfare. They imported them from Nubia by boat.

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  10. did you know THEIR PYRAMIDS AND CITIES ARE STILL BEING DISCOVERED,THEY HAD A COMPLICATED SYSTEM OF HIEROGLYPHS,AN ACCIDENTAL ARCHAEOLOGIST CRACKED MAYAN HANDWRITING and played extreme sports

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    2. 1)The Maya desired some unnatural physical characteristics for their children.

      2)For instance, at a very young age boards were pressed on babies’ foreheads to create a flattened surface.

      3)Health and medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex blend of mind, body, religion, ritual, and science.

      4)It is a rather well known fact that the Mayans practiced human sacrifice for religious and medical reasons – but what most people don’t know is that many Mayans still practice blood sacrifice.

      5)The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica.

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  11. The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. The designation Maya comes from the ancient Yucatan city of Mayapan, the last capital of a Mayan Kingdom in the Post-Classic Period. The Maya people refer to themselves by ethnicity and language bonds such as Quiche in the south or Yucatec in the north (though there are many others). The `Mysterious Maya’ have intrigued the world since their `discovery’ in the 1840’s by John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood but, in reality, much of the culture is not that mysterious when understood. Contrary to popular imagination, the Maya did not vanish and the descendants of the people who built the great cities of Chichen Itza, Bonampak, Uxmal and Altun Ha still exist on the same lands their ancestors did and continue to practice, sometimes in a modified form, the same rituals which would be recognized by a native of the land one thousand years ago.

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  19. There were an estimated six million Maya living in this area at the start of the 21st century. Guatemala, southern Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras have managed to maintain numerous remnants of their ancient cultural heritage.

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