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- The Classic Maya used dedication rituals to sanctify their living spaces and family members by associating their physical world with supernatural concepts...7 KB (938 words) - 15:59, 27 June 2018
- Death rituals were an important part of Maya religion. The Maya greatly respected death; they were taught to fear it and grieved deeply for the deceased...17 KB (2,559 words) - 10:41, 13 June 2024
- leading role in major public rituals. In the Classic period, the rituals of kingship were the most important rituals of the Maya court. The term 'theatre...64 KB (9,586 words) - 12:15, 4 July 2024
- religious activity in Maya culture, involving the killing of humans or animals, or bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals superintended by priests...27 KB (3,413 words) - 19:44, 15 June 2024
- considered here. In Maya narrative, the origin of many natural and cultural phenomena is set out, often with the moral aim of defining the ritual relationship...23 KB (3,423 words) - 06:15, 7 July 2024
- in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities...41 KB (5,037 words) - 12:03, 9 August 2024
- was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice. Generally only high status prisoners of...183 KB (22,561 words) - 00:30, 15 July 2024
- Bloodletting in Mesoamerica (redirect from Bloodletting rituals in Maya culture)brother-in-law. Bloodletting permeated Maya life. Kings performed bloodletting at every major political event. Building dedications, burials, marriages, and births...13 KB (1,618 words) - 21:42, 19 February 2024
- The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who...12 KB (1,909 words) - 10:13, 15 July 2024
- Cizin (category Maya deities)is a Maya god of death and earthquakes. He is the most important Maya death god in the Maya culture. Scholars call him God A. To the Yucatán Mayas he was...9 KB (810 words) - 21:42, 12 July 2024
- The pre-Columbian Maya religion knew various jaguar gods, in addition to jaguar demi-gods, (ancestral) protectors, and transformers. The main jaguar deities...7 KB (861 words) - 19:11, 9 March 2023
- (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion. The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon...15 KB (1,805 words) - 20:12, 13 May 2024
- Until the discovery that Maya stelae depicted kings instead of high priests, the Maya priesthood and their preoccupations had been a main scholarly concern...16 KB (2,111 words) - 04:46, 3 February 2024
- El Perú (also known as Waka'), is a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site occupied during the Preclassic and Classic cultural chronology periods (roughly...25 KB (3,503 words) - 10:50, 21 February 2024
- Zapotec civilization (section Dedication rituals)call themselves "Be'ena' Za'a" - The Cloud People. The Zapotec used dedication rituals to sanctify their living spaces and structures. Excavation of Mound...23 KB (2,801 words) - 13:40, 26 July 2024
- Sacred prostitution (redirect from Ritual prostitution)seemed to be connected to religious rituals. The vessels were covered in motifs related to sacrilegious rituals, such as the sacral knot and the image...64 KB (6,868 words) - 14:56, 11 August 2024
- because by participating in this ritual, they renew their faith and/or try to bring about a practical result. In the Maya faith, the believers may make a...9 KB (1,273 words) - 13:10, 17 December 2020
- Lady Xoc (category Maya queens)depict her performing rituals. Royal Maya women are often depicted via texts and iconography like lintels. However, other women of Maya culture are not depicted...10 KB (1,492 words) - 08:50, 10 January 2024
- participants in rituals conducted at their location. Such rituals in the Classic Period appear to have included a kʼaltun binding ritual, in which the stela...314 KB (11,261 words) - 02:27, 19 July 2024
- culturally significant to the Maya, and indicates that Ruler 4 was well respected both in life and in death. Dedications: Altar: 2 Stelae: 9, 10, 11, 22...20 KB (2,493 words) - 20:22, 25 August 2024
- . are dealing with people whose distress arises from what may be termed maya, to use the Hindu-Buddhist word whose exact meaning is not merely 'illusion'
- Troano, and Maya Chronology. Amer. Naturalist, September, 1881. 9. American Hero-Myths. Philadelphia, 1882. 261 pp. 10. Chronicles of the Mayas. Philadelphia
- are rituals in themselves. Rituals that mark a person's transition from one social state to another. So, the following components help in the ritual of