10 Interesting Facts About The Ancient Mayans
10 Interesting Facts About The Ancient Mayans, Photos
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1. The Mayans Enhanced Their Children’s Features
The Maya desired some unnatural physical characteristics for their children. For instance, at a very young age boards were pressed on babies’ foreheads to create a flattened surface.
2. The Mayans had Excellent Medical Techniques
Health and medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex blend of mind, body, religion, ritual, and science.
3. Maya Blue or Azul Maya Still a Mystery
Maya Blue or azul maya has been seen at several architectural locations from the ancient Mayan civilization including the archaeological site of Cacaxtla on the Mural de la batalla.
4. Mayans Played Sophisticated Deadly Ball Games
The ancient Maya ballgame was played for thousands of years throughout Mesoamerica, and had great religious significance.Contact with the ball was limited.
5. The Mayans Used Saunas
An important purification element to the ancient Maya was the sweat bath, or zumpul-ché.
Similar to a modern day sauna, sweat baths were constructed of stone walls and ceilings, with a small opening in the top of the ceiling. Water poured onto the hot rocks in the room created steam, offering a setting in which to sweat out impurities. Sweat baths were used for a range of conditions and situations. New mothers who had recently conceived a child would seek revitalization in them, while individuals who were sick could find healing power in sweating. Maya kings made a habit out of visiting the sweat baths as well because it left them feeling refreshed and, as they believed, cleaner.
6. The Mayan Used Hallucinogenics and Painkillers
The Mayan peoples regularly used hallucinogenic drugs (taken from the natural world) in their religious rituals, but they also used them in day to day life as painkillers.
Flora such as peyote, the morning glory, certain mushrooms, tobacco, and plants used to make alcoholic substances, were commonly used. In addition, as depicted in Maya pottery and carvings, ritual enemas were used for a more rapid absorption and effect of the substance. Above is a statue of a Mayan enjoying their enema.
7. The Mayan Still Practice Blood Sacrifices
Mayan civilization and its people practiced and promoted blood sacrificed to their gods; especially of little children.
Their sacrifices usually would take place on the first appearance of the Planet Venus or simply to appease the Sun. Unfortunately the sacrifice of little children existed in almost all ancient culture as they believe that offering the pure sole of the children to the “gods” can somehow bring them prosperity and avoid adversity. More specifically the Mayas sacrificed human beings for medical and religious reasons. This practice cannot be seen among the present Mayans descendants; however, they still use cattle and chicken blood instead of human blood.
8. The Last Mayan Kingdom Existed Until 1697
The island city of Tayasal is considered as the last independent Mayan Kingdom and it existed until 1696.
Finally it was submitted to the Spanish rule, after which the existence of all original ancient Mayas were mysteriously eradicated and no one knows exactly why. Many theories have been put to the table, one of which is that the Spanish carried a virus that Mayas never faced before and it basically irradiated them.
9. Dec 21, 2012 Mayans Marks Rare Cosmic Event
This end-date of the Long Count Calendar December 21, 2012 marks the coming of a truly rare cosmic event that will occur when this procession of the equinoxes positions our solar system in the very center of our galaxy when Earth will cross the ecliptic path of the sun.
10. The Mayan Had Advanced Writing Skills
The Maya had fairly advanced writing skills, like the Egyptians their written language was in hieroglyphs. They were capable of writing full sentences and communicating stories.
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