Mayan religion

"Most of them (but not all) were followers of the new Mayan religion.

Here the priests of the Mayan religion apparently had presided over ceremonies to the gods.

The practice of traditional Mayan religion is increasing as a result of the cultural protections established under the peace accords.

But he liked having people think he was-more of that Mexican witchcraft and Mayan religion jazz.

I thought that the Mayan religion was mainly practiced by the inhabitants of Marin Country, California rather than Mexicans!

A majority of residents practice their own form of Catholicism, called traditional, a mixture of Catholic and pre-Hispanic Mayan religions.

According to Augustus Le Plongeon, the Naacals were the missionaries of Mayan religion and civilization.

In Mayan religion, Xibalbá is the dangerous underworld of nine levels ruled by the demons Vucub Caquix and Hun Came.

According to the Mayan religion, in addition to receiving dreams and visions, women also tend to find small items in paths that are symbols and objects related to midwifery.

A Tztotzil Catholic priest explains that "indigenous theology always involves a certain degree of syncretism between popular indigenous Mayan religion with Christian rituals and beliefs.

Landa's Relación De Las Cosas De Yucatán is about as complete a treatment of Mayan religion as we are likely to ever have.

From these and other discoveries, archeologists have gathered important information about the development of Mayan religion, trade and hieroglyphic writing systems from A.D. 250 to A.D. 900.

The origins of his cult are not very well understood by outsiders to the different Mayan religions, but Maximón is believed to be a form of the pre-Columbian Maya god Mam, blended with influences from Spanish Catholicism.

"In the Mayan religion, corn is the source of life," said Mr. Adams, who filmed a shaman in Chiapas, Mexico, treating his own grandson's cough by divining the disease in the kernels of corn that floated in a basin of water.