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No fat, he was once a civilization too warlike rather oriented trading that has started to build from 600 sacred sites around the Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala and Honduras. these cities have prospered by trading fairly peacefully with their neighbors between 600 and 900 (peak of the Mayan culture).
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Maya was a true theocracy: the fate of men depended on its relationship with the gods and priests in particular that of rain (Chaac) because in the Yucatan, the availability of water depends exclusively on rain. Here there is no river water through the soil and limestone form cenotes or natural reservoirs that allow water to dip the dry season. C Chaac why the god is the god most revered and it is ubiquitous in Uxmal, Labná, COBA and the other No we have not visited. He is represented in the form of a head very abstract and geometric style Puuc. We love this minimalist architecture, very cubist actually. M
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IS voila, c is not so simple, we also discover that the more recent buildings, our Chaac Quetzalcoatal coexists with the Aztecs, the famous serpent (earth and fertility) has feathers (the air) with its bell that can be seen below cons. Indeed, at the end of the first millennium has arrived in the north, a Toltec tribe whose influence on some sites, particularly in Chichen Itza, is very visible.
These Toltecs, relatives of Aztec warriors and Mexico were quite happy practicing sacrificial ceremonies or dominate various refinements such as beheading (classical) or pulling out of hearts (most original) or precipitation in the sacred wells. The victims were generally chosen from the ranks of prisoners of war (which was intended to supply fresh meat in human sacrifice) or in some cases in their own troops! Ci cons of skulls impaled on spikes, and higher, you have recognized an eagle devouring a heart still wriggling. A little gore, no?
The arrival of the Toltecs seem to have been smooth and the Aztec culture was integrated into the ancient Mayan rituals. Suddenly, the reasons friezes reflect different influences in different places: Geometric friezes on the facades to the Maya, strips realistic, low to the Toltecs, but Always step pyramid, mostly oval to the Maya, square to the Toltecs.
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the English arrived, all these cities had been abandoned for religious reasons that have long remained mysterious for today archaeologists are unanimous dock to incriminate a very long period of drought that has devastated the priests because the more people find funny na massive sacrifice to bring rain increasingly rare revolts, migrations, wars INTERCITES we will know probably nothing about the details because the English destroyed all written records of the Mayan culture and only a few remaining codices in 3 major Western libraries and private collections. And the guides are strong, because they all have different theories. Since the aliens to the cavemen, caves out to directly build the pyramids, you can hear all the madness.
Some say the game is played to 7, for others it takes two to tango.
As c is a sacred game, giving the privilege of being murdered has Uxmal, of having the penis breakthrough Coba and decapitated, in Chichen-Itza.
As for rules, can not be the beginning of a consensus. Ilsemblerait that passing the rubber ball of 4 kg in this hole strokes hip, elbow, or shoulder was a feat cosmogonic. It deserved a ch'tit sacrifice.
short, nothing is known. And the current Mayan either. For
Mayans still exist! Coba Our guide pointed out to us his hooked nose as on representations of steles this city, the language is still practiced, including the young, then it is not at al taught school.
It is written and Mayan-revival is part of Mexico today. That iconoclastic
colonizers to say, it does not destroy an ancient culture so easily. It seems to us that the guides Maya we bombard of questions n not much liked the Toltec ...
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