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Gabrielle Vail, 'Pre-Hispanic Maya Religion. Conceptions of divinity in the Postclassic Maya codices'. Ancient Mesoamerica 11(2000): 123–147. Erik Velásquez García, 'The Maya Flood Myth and the Decapitation of the Cosmic Caiman'. The PARI Journal VII-1 (2006). Evon Z. Vogt, Tortillas for the Gods. A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals ...
The relevance of modern Dark Rift observations to pre-Columbian and traditional Maya beliefs is strongly debated, and academic archaeologists reject all theories regarding extraterrestrial contact, but it is clear that the promotion of Mayanism through interest in 2012 is contributing to the evolution of religious syncretism in contemporary ...
The Aztecs abandoned their rites and merged their own religious beliefs with Catholicism, whereas the relatively autonomous Maya kept their religion as the core of their beliefs and incorporated varying degrees of Catholicism. [6] The Aztec village religion was supervised by friars, mainly Franciscan. Prestige and honor in the village were ...
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. They also believed that certain deaths were more noble than others.
"Ritual sacrifice was a common practice among ancient Mesoamerican populations. ... and there were concerted efforts to stamp out Maya religious beliefs and activities and replace them with ...
Important rituals such as the dedication of major building projects or the enthronement of a new ruler required a human sacrificial offering. The sacrifice of an enemy king was the most prized offering, and such a sacrifice involved the decapitation of the captive ruler in a ritual reenactment of the decapitation of the Maya maize god by the Maya death gods. [1]
The building was connected to the cult of Kukulcán, a serpent deity, according to officials.
Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving the killing of humans or animals, or bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals superintended by priests. Sacrifice has been a feature of almost all pre-modern societies at some stage of their development and for broadly the same reason: to propitiate or fulfill a perceived ...