Maya Culture
The Poetry of a Maya Woman: Lupita Chan
Everyone has a language of their own, which means that everyone can create poetry. Among those who m...
Maya Culture
The Myth of the Maya Calendar
The doomsday clock. The burden of time. The Maya calendar predicts the end of the world. These are t...
Maya Culture
A Glimpse Into Maya Worldview: Turtles and Corn
Today more than ever we need to defend and cultivate native corn varieties… and observe that beautif...
Maya Culture
Who is Kukulkán?
Kukulkán is the main deity of the Maya pantheon: the god of gods, the Yucatecan alternative to the R...
Maya Culture
Maya Gods
One of the most devastating consequences of so many Maya codices and sacred art having been burned d...
Maya Culture
A Bleeding Prophecy: The Book of Xocén
We talk about the sacred book, the book of prophecies, or the living book of Xocen, the little town ...
Maya Culture
Maya Marriage
Marriage is a social institution which creates a conjugal link between its members, a socially recog...
Maya Culture
Fantastic Beasts of the Mayab
Mischievous “aluxes,” an extraordinary water serpent named Tsukán, and Sip the deer. Animals, humans...
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Maya Names
Four different names The American scholar Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, who was an eminent Maya archaeolo...
