Keywords
pre-Columbia Maya, Rituals, rebirth
Abstract
The concepts of rebirth and renewal were paramount in pre-Columbian Maya culture. Traditionally, the Maya believe chat everything passes through a never-ending cycle of birch, maturation, decay, death, and rebirth. This cycle encompasses the elements of everyday life which the Maya could perceive: the human life cycle, the life cycle of crops, the seasons, and even the rise and fall of the sun. They noticed chat all of these day-today happenings "have their beginnings in a creative ace and ultimately weaken and die in an orderly succession of days chat is both comforting in its predictability and terrifying in its unwavering finality."
Recommended Citation
Duffy, Madeline
(2017)
"Rebirth and Renewal in Maya Ritual from the Precolonial Period to the Present,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 46:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol46/iss1/7
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