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BOOKS ABOUT THE MAYA & MAYAN CULTURE

Mayan Cooking
Mayan Cooking: Recipes from the Sun Kingdoms of Mexico

Secrets of Ancient Cultures: The Maya--
Secrets
of
Ancient Cultures:
The Maya--Activities and Crafts from a Mysterious Land

A Coloring Book of Incas, Aztecs and Mayas
A Coloring Book of Incas, Aztecs and Mayas

The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness
The Mayan Calendar
and the Transformation of Consciousness

Mayan Hammocks
Mayan Hammocks

Sterling Silver Mayan Dragon AMETHYST Pendant
Sterling Silver Mayan Dragon AMETHYST Pendant

Popol Vul
Popol Vul



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Mask in Jade and Shell Mosaic, Mayan Early Classical period 300-600 AD, Tikal, Guatemala, Photographic Print
Mask in Jade and Shell Mosaic, Mayan Early Classical period 300-600 AD, Tikal, Guatemala,
Photographic Print

The Mayas, a sophisticated, technologically advanced civilization indigenous to Central America, reached their zenith between the 4th and 12th centuries A.D.

The Mayas were accomplished in math and astronomy, having formulated complex calendars and writing systems before the Spanish colonial conquest.

The Mayan civilization eventually succumbed to plagues, internal wars, and droughts, much that was foretold by their own prophecies.

The ancient Maya created one of the most sophisticated and prophetic calendar systems. High priests foretold events 5,126 years into the future to what some believe will be the end of the world in 2012.



Land of the Maya Map, Giclee Print
Land of the Maya Map, Giclee Print
text

Ancient Maya World Map Poster 1989
Ancient Maya World Map,
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text

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Ancient Civilizations - Ancient Maya Wall Poster
The Maya,
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The Maya
(500 B.C. – 900 A.D.)
The Maya Indians built one of the world's most remarkable civilizations in the jungles of Central America. Like the ancient Greeks, who civilization was nearing its peak just as the Maya appeared, the Maya are known for their fabulous temples, and for their amazing knowledge of math and science. The Maya were the only Indians in America to develop a written language. Today, people come from all over the world to view the crumbling ruins of their once-great cities.

The Maya lived throughout Central America's Yucatan Peninsula in what are now the nations of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. They were a short, stocky people, with dark skin and black hair. They greatly admired sloping foreheads, and would frequently strap boards to babies' heads in order to flatten them. Maya life centered around the great cities, which were used for festivals, markets, and religious ceremonies. Strangely enough, almost no one lived in the cities. Only priests were allowed to live there for short periods of time. All other people lived in smaller communities around the cities, or on farms scattered throughout the countryside. The Maya grew crops such as corn, beans, squash, and tomatoes. They liked to dance, and they played a difficult game in which players had to hit a ball through a stone ring with their knees or hips.

Like the Greeks, the Maya worshipped many gods. They had rain gods, a sun god, a corn god, and gods of death and the underworld. The Maya were very interested in measuring and studying time. They invented a highly accurate calendar, which they used to help them track the movements of the sun, stars, and planets. Maya civilization began to decline around 800, as the Maya abandoned their cities one by one. Even today, no one really knows why this remarkable civilization suddenly ended.

Artwork depicts the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque, statue of the Maya leader Lord Pacal, and the Mayan calendar.

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El Castillo, Ancient Classic Mayan Ruins of Xuntunich, Xuntunich, Cayo, Belize
El Castillo, Ancient Classic Mayan Ruins of Xuntunich, Xuntunich, Cayo, Belize

Mayan wood carving, Gales Point, Belize, Giclee Printt
Mayan wood carving, Gales Point, Belize, Giclee Printt

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Stelae of the King 18 Rabbit at the Maya Ruins, Copan, Honduras, Giclee Print
Stele at the Maya Ruins, Copan, Honduras,
Giclee Print

Temple of the Grand Jaguar on the Great Plaza, Tikal, Guatemala Giclee Print
Temple of the Grand Jaguar
on the Great Plaza, Tikal, Guatemala
Giclee Print


Mayan Woman Giclee Print
Mayan Woman
Giclee Print

Mayan Codex, Giclee Print
Mayan Codex,
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Epic Poetry Form Poster
Epic

Poetry Forms -
Epic Poster

Like the ballad, the epic poem tells a story in verse. But unlike the short and songlike ballad, epics are large, expansive, and meant to be chanted and told rather than sung.

All ancient civilizations have their epics: in India, it's the Mahabarata, in Greece, the Aeneid, the Odyssey, and the Iliad, in Babylon, it's Gilgamesh; among the Nyanga people of Zaire, it's the Mwindo. These long poems are imaginative works that served as cultural history, mythology, and moral lessons to those who heard and repeated them over the centuries. ...

Here is a selection from the Popol Vuh, the epic of the Mayan people. In this passage, a mythic character named Seven Macaw brags about his importance:

I am Great!
I am placed now over the people of masonry, the people of pottery.
I am their sun, /and I am their light, / and I am their moon, until those things come to be.

Great is my light! / I am the path, / and I am the trail for the people.
Of silver are my eyes, / they just sparkel with jewelry of bluegreen jade.
And also my teeth gape bluegreen with stones,/ like the face of the sky.
So, too, my nose is scorched-white from afar, / like the moon.
And my throne is silver,/ it lights up the face of the earth. ...


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