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9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know. Cheer up and discover them!

The Mayans were an important Mesoamerican civilization, they stood out for having the only known and fully developed language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for their art, architecture, mathematical and astronomical systems.some facts about the Mayan culture.Let's meet them!

9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know.Animate and discover them!

1.The ninez maya

The Maya wanted some unnatural physical characteristics for their children, for example, at a very early age they pressed the baby's foreheads, to create a flattened surface .Another practice was to cross the baby's eyes To do this, objects hung in front of the eyes of the newborn.

9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know. Cheer up and discover them!

Another interesting fact about Mayan children is that most were named according to the day they were born.Every day of the year they had a specific name for boys and girls.

2.Excellent doctors

Health and Medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex mixture of mind, body, religion, ritual and science..Medicine was practiced only by a select few who had been given an excellent education. These men, called shamans, acted as a means between the physical world and the spiritual world. They practiced witchcraft for healing, foresight and control over natural events.It is known that the Maya sutured wounds with human hair , they healed fractures, and they were even dental surgeons, made jade and turquoise prostheses and filled their teeth with iron pyrite.

3.Blood sacrifices

Among the data on culture maya, it is a well known fact that they practiced human sacrifice for religious reasons and doctors, but what most people don't know is that many Maya still practice this kind of sacrifice .But don't be too scared, and chicken blood has replaced human blood.

9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know. Cheer up and discover them!

Today the Mayan heirs maintain many of the traditions and rituals of their ancestors.Prayer elements, offerings, blood sacrifices, burning Copal incense, dances, parties and traditional drinks in their ceremonies.All a tribute to their ancestors!

4.Analgesics

Mayan people regularly use hallucinogenic drugs (taken from natural world) in their religious rituals; but they are also used daily as analgesics .Plants, such as peyote, morning glory, certain mushrooms, tobacco and plants used to make alcoholic substances , were of general use.

9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know. Cheer up and discover them!

5.The ball game

The Mesoamerican ball game was a sport played for more than 3000 years in the villages Pre-Columbians of Mesoamerica.The sport had different versions in different places, for millennia .A modern version of the game, is still performed in a few places by the local population .It is said that the classical Maya played with a ball more or less the size of a volleyball, but made of rubber and much heavier.There are even speculations that clean heads and skulls were used as balls for the representations that have been found in the art related to the game.p>

6.Saunas

An important element for the purification of the ancient Maya was the steam bath, or zumpul-che. These were similar to the saunas of today, they were built with stone walls and with a small opening in the upper part of the roof.Steam was used for a variety of conditions and situations.

9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know. Cheer up and discover them!

They were used by mothers who had recently conceived a child, individuals who were sick and the Mayan kings.

7.The last Mayan state

The city of the island of Tayasal, was the last independent Mayan kingdom and some Spanish priests peacefully visited and preached to the last king Itza, Canek, in 1696. The Itza kingdom was finally subjected to Spanish domination on March 13, 1697.This place is famous for the beautiful archeological monuments it possesses, some possess them families and others are managed by the government.

8.Mayan Calendar

The Mayans don't have a calendar, they have calendars connected to each other .According to Mayan mythology , we are living in the fourth world or «creation» so to speak .

9 facts about the Mayan culture that you should know. Cheer up and discover them!

According to the Maya the 2012 did not mean the end of world, on the contrary it was a moment of great celebration for having reached the end of a cycle of creation.For them it was the beginning of a new "Age".

9.The mystery of the Maya

For reasons that are still discussed, it is not yet known how the Mayan civilization was disappearing. The non-ecological theories of the Mayan decline are divided into several subcategories, such as overpopulation, invasion foreign, peasant revolt, and ecological hypotheses include environmental disasters, epidemic diseases and climate change.There is evidence that the Mayan population exceeded the carrying capacity of the environment, including the depletion of agricultural potential and the excess hunting of megafauna Some academics have recently theorized that an intense drought of 200 years led to the collapse of the Mayan civilization.

Did you know any of this data about the Mayan culture? There are countless of them, and there is no doubt that were and remain a mystery for modern civilization, but with much or little that is known there is no doubt that they did amazing things in this world.

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