They sacrifice people for the Gods to get what they want.They also believed that the Gods had the power of living or death.
The Mayan people worshiped nature Gods, including the God of Rain and The God of Sun. The Mayans paid tribute to the various Gods in the form of labor and sacrifice.
One way the Maya tried to please their gods was to take a sacrifice to the top of one of their structures and rip out heir heart, in the sunlight.
well i can't answer what religion they were but they did worship the sun and the moon. I think they also worship jaguars.
The Maya did do human sacrifice because they believed their gods needed it for strength, or else the sun may fall from the sky because the god grew too weak and that would cause their world to end.
Beliefs in many gods
Different gods. Did the Greeks practice human sacrifice?
One way the Maya tried to please their gods was to take a sacrifice to the top of one of their structures and rip out heir heart, in the sunlight.
to worship gods and respect for the gods
If you accept that the gods desire sacrifice, it is then logical to offer the most valuable type of sacrifice, which would be people, in order to obtain the favor of the gods.
the Maya sacrificed people as one of their religions. though, Mayan people were known to have more than a few religions that involved sacrifice.
They would sacrifice the people they conquered to their gods because they wanted the gods to be nice to them. They did not want floods or droughts to ruin their crops. They thought that they gods controled everything. The Aztec