The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize ...

The Many Maya Deities We know about Maya religion today from a number of sources. This includes information from Maya glyphs, artwork, surviving Maya texts like the Dresden Codex, later works like the ...

Re-Enchanting the World: Maya Protestantism in the Guatemalan Highlands (Contemporary American Indian Studies) C. Mathews Samson (Author) University Alabama Press 256 pages $29.95 ...

Jose Manuel Ochoa, archaeologist and director of the Mayan Ruins at Coba, says the Mayans were known for their ability to measure time, and the Mayan calendar has been interpreted many different ways.

This paper describes the theology or, more accurately, the cosmology of a particular version of Maya religion in highland Guatemala. This version is consciously drawn from the ancient Maya tradition, ...

Object Details Author Morris, Neil 1946- Cappon, Manuela Della Porta, Luisa Ricciardi, Andrea Notes Originally published: Florence, Italy : McRae Books, c2003. Includes index. Contents Mesoamerican ...

(non-Flash version) View a clickable map of the ancient Maya empire, from Chichen Itza in the north to Copan in the south.

A MAYA breakthrough occurred after researchers analysed the way in which the ancient civilisation kept time, revealing how it was intermingled with the 'essence religion'.