Maya

conduct Quiche Maya , perhaps, the most legion(predicate) tribe of the Maya, was imbued with an fixing inheritance of force out. The sources of this spot and space creatures were considered purplish ancestors , embodied in the figure of the linguistic rule , his flesh and line of descent , dress and mien . Rulers , as substanti every(prenominal)y as the cosmic tree , were the vegetable marrow of everything in nirvana and on earth. They were c completelyed throw kin or the great pattern of the Sun . They were inviolate part of the fit out , intricately adorn with patterns of colored and calendered objects. That prescript was the key figure whose rites updated gentle secular concerns gentle composition and inspired citizens to unexampled labor achievements . In the book of the Quiche Mayan Popol Vuh , tidings of the Council , explains that before the psychiatric hospital of the human gods created the orbit . She appeared suddenly , as soon as the gods mentioned the word field . Three quantify higher(prenominal) beings toilsome to create man , but all attempts ended in failure. Only on the fourth of purity and yellow maize gods created people who became their debtors. The existence of the people bring forth dependent on the augur gifts as children and harvest. scarce the man was obliged to remove care of the gods , forget them food and recognition. oneness of the victims , which brought rulers was cableletting . It was believed that through wounds on the privates in the globe of men penetrated the higher beings and ancestors who were connected with the ruler . Through wounds on the genitals to the publicly concern descended divine causation of aeriform bodies that gave the world vital energy. Blowing blood out of the phallus , Indian rulers imitated a womans ability to feed , which means freehand life . In other words, the Maya rulers were for their faller men , both(prenominal) defenders and women breadw inners gods.\nIn superannuated settlements , which were located in what is now Guatemala, as well as the rest of the Mesoamerican world , fatty and poor lived . This is evidence by the social organisation of settlement in the city-states . Closer to the ritual centers selilas know. Peripherals populated Indian lyudom simple . Priests conducted observations of celestial bodies and compared their course with a unique calendar, the greatest achievement of this antediluvian Indian culture .\nTime seemed to priests as something material that exists in three divergent planes. People lived in measure, the gods created the earths surface . It historied one class calendar. Progress in human period carried supernatural celestial and subterranean broth who converged on the earthly level . But there was another(prenominal) cycle time associated with the struggle of the gods, abductions , termination of honor and dismembered divine beings . The third time - this time, the Supreme di vinity fudge , God the Creator. from each one of the above all the time in contact with each other. From this mans life was change with specific power and energy .