The Mayas
The Maya people were a civilisation who were skilled astronomers and lived ancient in Mexico. They did many sacrifices for their gods, both blood and human. Although they were around at 2000 BC they were intelligent for their time; since they could predict solar eclipses and tracked other planets.
What did the Maya believe in?
Mayas believed in over 150 gods but they had five main ones such as: Itzamna, Ix Chel, Maize God, Chac and Kimi. Itazmana was one of the creator gods; he invented writing and is a patron of learning. Anouther Maya god is Ix Chel, she is the wife of Itzamna and is the god of childbirth, healing and the moon. Next the Maize God, since almost 80% of their diet was made of maize and they beilieved that they were created from maize dough by the gods, the Maize God was cruical to their life style. Chac created storms and brought rain to their crops and also caused wars and human sacrifices. Finaly, Kimi was the death god.
Maya learning.
Mayans had a different way of measuring time than we do today.
These symbols are glyphs, the mayan writing
This is how Mayans used to show numbers.
This mayan calendar tracked planets so the mayas knew the time of year
Mayan food.
Mayan clothes.
In the ancient Maya tradition, there were everyday wear and more formal wear. Their day to day clothes would consist of: a loin cloth or short skirt for men and a hupil or long skirt for woman. Most of these were made of cotton, bark cloth or hemp fibre.
Did u know that, the Mayas weaved lace into their hair?
Fun fact, the amount of decoration on your footwear depended on your social status.
When Mayas made their clothes the designed them to drape not to fit.
Mayan inventions an innovations.
In the Mayan times, people had different opinions on architecture; they also had limited supplies to work with. Many build their own house or naah as they Maya called it. In fact they build houses oblong. Next they build the walls with clay to keep it strong. Finlay they thatched palm leaves for the roof. It usually has two rooms, one for cooking and one for sleeping; the toilet and bathing area are outside with the live stock.
Even though it was a long time ago, we still use some of the Maya’s inventions today. One of their inventions is the calendar; they used it to keep track of religious ceremony and wayeb days -days of misfortune where everyone stays at home. It involves numbers as a date system, also its made of two parts consisting of the tzolkin and the haab to show different parts of the year.
