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Mayans

The Mayan civilization was spread through what is now Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, western Honduras, and the southern regions of Mexico. The Mayans are well known for creating the only fully developed written language of pre-Columbian Americas. The Mayans were at the height of their civilization from about 300 to 900 AD, although there are still Mayans today in certain areas of Guatemala and Mexico.

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What do these ruins tell us about the Mayan people?

The Mayans probably had a very developed religion

What is the great mystery of Mayas?

what happened to the Mayan culture
The great mystery of the Mayas talks about what happened in the ancient jungles of Guatemala and Mexico.

What does the Mayan deity Chac represent?

It represents courage and trustworthiness means you need to have courage and you need to have trust in all the people you meet

Did Aztecs have storytelling?

The Aztecs had beliefs but not storytelling.

What was Mayan day to day life like?

A typical Mayan famiy would consist of 5-7 people, they would rise before dawn, breakfast on hot chocolate or a thick, hot corn drink called Atole. served with tortillas or tomales. The men [in the growing season] would tend the crops or hunted for deer or other small animals. The women would stay close to home and prepare meals, grind corn, weave baskets, tend to the deer herd, sew and look after the children. The boys would go with the rest of the men and be taught how to tend the crops or learn to hunt. The girls would stay with the women and learn household tasks. At the end of the day the whole family would gather for the evening meal, which would consist of corn, squash, beans and meat[deer, rabbit,turkey]. Before the meal was eaten the head of the household [with the help of his wife] might perform a blood letting ceremony accompanied by prayers and chanting. Then the family would eat and might talk of up-coming events and day to day happenings.

Explain the similarities and differences about 4 each of the Mayan Aztec and Incan cultures from Ancient America?

You shouldn't cheat!!! IF you don't know the mid term questions! you should go back! Btw Your really behind. The teachers on cambrige can tell!

What type of housing do Canadians live in?

we live in igloos. city people don't but the majority of Canadians do. we also get dogsleds for our 16th birthday instead of cars. and we eat moose and deer every night for dinner.(that we hunted ourselves)

How do you think the Aztecs and Incan people may have felt about the events?

I think the aztec fell sad because they mad them gain land and riches

What are Q'iche' and Kaqchikel?

They are two of the many different Mayan languages.

How can Mixcoatl the Aztec deity be Tezcatlipoca the brother of Quetzalcoatl and also the father of Quetzalcoatl as some sources claim?

Aztec mythology frequently features deities who are symbolic representations of one another. When it is suggested that Tezcatlipoca "became" Mixcoatl to invent fire, the real message is that Tezcatlipoca, as one of the most powerful gods in the pantheon, needed to borrow the auspices or powers of a different god in order to do so since fire was outside his normal milieu. It's not that Tezcatlipoca and Mixcoatl are the same person as much as it's that Aztec myths are fluid about allowing the one to stand in for the other as necessary.

And by the same token, Tezcatlipoca being Quetzalcoatl's brother may not be meant to be taken literally, either. The two gods were in many ways polar opposites representing very different concepts and ideas; viewing them as twins might be a result of the fact that the things they represented were sort of twinned, like calling darkness and light or life and death twins.

Keep in mind also that the Aztec empire was by no means operating under a unified religion that was the same in all areas. It was a collection of different city states and ethnic groups united under Mexica rulership, and therefore the myths are different from area to area. Mixcoatl, in particular, went through a lot of different forms and versions as he was originally a major patron god of some of the local ethnic groups that were conquered by the Aztecs and only later became less important.

Basically, Aztec mythology is not simply linear like Greco-Roman or Celtic myth, so what look like contradictions are often just different ways of looking at the same gods and ideas.

Did the Mayans know about Jesus?

no

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They did not know about Jesus but their legends tell them of a "White bearded God" who would come again. This knowledge is believed by many of the American Indians to this day.