The Mayan culture

With the chaos created by the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, there is much interest in the Mayan culture, religion and symbols Maya Maya.
The 2012 Mayan Calendar is not the end of the world, it means just the beginning of a new era or age, a new level of consciousness.

The Maya believe that the cycles are about 5000 years in time and in 2012 only mean the end of a certain age, as was done, a new cycleTo initiate a change even notice most people.

According to Mayan beliefs the Cosmos was made up of nine underworld, this belief was very strong in their pyramids, which were all expressed in nine different stories.

The traditional Mayan believe the existence, within each of the two core sub-groups, usually in terms of quasi-material (eg, "described the shadow," "breath", "blood" and "bone"). The loss of one or more sub souls results in some diseases(Such as heart disease, cancer, etc.) were very skilled in natural medicine, herbs, trees and surrounding jungle to treat and nourish their art bodies.This is still evident today, although it will die as the old man forward medicine.

The Maya reached a lot of "firsts" during this period. Not only have they built a lot of pyramids and temples, knew they were experts on the construction of roads and also how to make rubber. So they built the most modern facility of its streetsTime.

They had the first progressive system of writing in the Western Hemisphere and had two calendars, one used by 365 days.They their system of writing (hieroglyphics), record information in books made from the bark of fig trees.

They developed a mathematical system based on the number 20 and were the first to use the number 0.

There was life all work and no play. They had a form of modern basketball game, where a pumpkin or other round object has been developedsearch through a tire over the wall. They took the game very seriously, as the losers were often sacrificed to the gods. In some cases, the winning tribe sacrificed as a way to appease the gods for some misfortune happen that was inappropriate. In these circumstances, it was an honor to be selected as victims, and most athletes volunteers.

Astronomy was a part of his life much like the calendar and mathematics .. Social class wasdetermined by economics, religion and politics. As demonstrated today in beautiful works of art displayed throughout Central America and Mexico, there were many talented potters, sculptors and artists with expertise in carving jade and other semiprecious stones. The Maya were farmers and intelligent architects.

The first evidence of Mayan life was soon 250.Geographers AD found that in 900 AD, the Maya had their cities, and so left theirCivilization slowly disappeared.