Maya civilization. Uxmal, Nunnery Quadrangle Artist's copy of Bonampak Painting, Mexico, 700 C.E.
Throne 1 of Piedras Negras The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for Maya script, the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Mayan Mythology - Myth Encyclopedia - god, names, ancient, tree, war, world, creation, Native American. The Mayan civilization flourished in Mesoamerica from around 300 B .
C . until the Spanish conquest of the early A . D . 1500S. The mythology of the Maya had many elements in common with those of other civilizations of the region. But the Maya developed their own variation of the Mesoamerican pantheon of gods and goddesses, the stories about them, and the image of the universe and the place of humans in it. Unaahil B'aak: The Temples of Palenque. Mythological episodes in inscriptional literature were used for many purposes beyond simply recording the trials and tribulations of Maya deities.
Mythic narratives were intertwined with descriptions of ritual and dynastic history that were particular to the individual cities at which they were recorded. Thus, the historical moment and place at which a mythological text was produced heavily inflected its telling. Most of the texts cited here are from the city of Palenque and were inscribed from the end of the seventh through the first half of the eighth centuries.
We might say, therefore, that the following is Maya mythology as told at Palenque, or more restrictively, Palenque mythology. The Kerr Collections - The Vase of the Eleven Gods. Videos-maias.