Submitted by sandman84 on July 22, 2007

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Mayan Religion

Mayan Religious Beliefs

The Mayans were simple hunters and gatherers that managed to turn their cultivation of Maize into the highly advanced civilization that we associate with them today.
In the beginning, the Mayans believed that their makers Tepew and Q'uk'umatz met together in the darkness to think and reflect. They had to decide as to what would be the proper material for the creation of man, or the first mother and father. In their wisdom, they decide that the flesh would be made from white and yellow corn. (www.lost-civilizations.net/mayan-religion-popol-vuh.html)
This story of creation is told in the Mayan sacred book named the ‘Popol...

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