Mayan
The purpose of the Mayan calendar was to keep the social and spiritual order. Their rituals served as a necessary duty, or “tax” if you will, in order to keep the powers that be able and willing to keep nature working in the way it should.
They used a variety of things to understand human destiny/human nature and the calendar was perhaps the biggest. But you also were seen to have multiple souls, each having a different destiny. They believed that any illness or misfortune you might experience arose because one of those souls had been lost or alienated, and they had rituals to restore that order.
“Mayan cosmology contains within it the explanation for our current global transformation, and possibilities for how we can survive it.” John Jenkins
Mayan Spiritual Order
Mayan astrology is really an extension of Mesoamerican efforts in general. The Aztec people were working on the same general… Read More
Mayan World View
Were Mayans organized in city-states? They were organized into city states. Their city structures being temples. I kind of see… Read More
Cycles of Creation
The cycles of creation were mostly elemental in nature, corresponding roughly to the Mayan agricultural cycle, but they did also… Read More
Gods in Everything
I did some research on how the Mayan books were constructed. The codexes or more generally? The codexes. They were… Read More
Mayan Glyphs
Unfortunately, there isn't a great deal to say on the mayan glyphic system. First off, it would be mistaken to… Read More