Posts Tagged Maya History
A Mayan legend tells of an alliance between Uxmal, Chichén Itzá and Mayapán that was shattered when Lord Kanek, ruler of Chichén Itzá, kidnapped Princess Sac Nicte, daughter of the Lord of Mayapán, on the day of her marriage to the Prince of Uxmal. According to the ancient story, in the mayhem that followed the [...]
Unlike many other ancient civilizations, the ancient Maya have resisted the passage of time, and many of them have proudly remained and pertain today to a modern Maya culture. Thanks to today’s Mayas is how we know about beliefs, traditions and what kind of eating habits their Maya ancestors had.
The main ingredients of the Maya [...]
The expansion and severe contraction periods of a great boom followed by periods of cyclical collapse characterize the history of Maya lowlands. Many theories about the disappearance of the Mayan civilization are counterposed, some researchers suggest that Mayas may have been down to environmental factors, starvation, dehydration, disease, social disintegration, climate conditions, migration, war and [...]
Pok ta Pok; The Mayan Ball Game
Athletes or Worshipers?
The Popol Vuh, the holy book of the Quiché Maya, relates a confrontation story between good and evil, represented with a ballgame. This Mesoamerican ballgame played a mysterious and very important role throughout pre-Hispanic civilizations, with a symbolic struggle between opposing forces, featuring an outcome governed by [...]
