Mayan

Mayan

Mayans believe that Mother Earth was a big monster. It was an alligator, toad, and a turtle combined. Above her , was a sky with a layer for each planet and spheres of movement for the sun and the moon. Below her was the underworld where bodies passed when out of sight. All around her were the spirits of rain and thunder. The God of the food plants and animals attended her. All nature was alive and it was constantly dying and being reborn . The Mayans are American Indian people who lived in southern Mexico. The Yucatan was the center of the Mayan civilization . from about the 1st century B.C. They flourished in Mexico and central America from 250 to 1600 A.D.. Their ancestors had crossed the Bering land Bridge from Asia. Honduras was once a part of the Mayan Empire. It had flourished between 250 and 950 A.D.. The Mayans also had lived in Mexican states: Yucantan and Chiapas, British Honduras, Guatemala......
The ancient Maya were a group of American Indian peoples who lived in southern Mexico, particularly thepresent-day states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, and in Belize, Guatemala,and adjacent Honduras. Their descendants, the modern Maya, live in the same regions today, in bothhighlands and lowlands, from cool highland plains ringed by volcanos to deep tropical rain forests.Through the region runs a single major river system, the Apasion-Usumacinta and its many tributaries, andonly a handful of lesser rivers, the Motagua, Hondo, and Belize among them. The ancestors of the Maya,like those of other New World peoples, crossed the BERING LAND BRIDGE from Asia more than 20,000 yearsago, during the last ice age.The Maya were the first people of the New World to keep historical records: their written history beginsin 50 BC, when they began to inscribe texts on pots, jades, bones, stone monuments, and palace walls.Maya records trace the history of the great kings and queens who ruled from 50 BC until the Spanishconquest in the 16th century....

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