Like Teotihuacan to the north, research suggests Chichen Itza was a highly syncretic society, combining traditions of both Toltec and Maya, evidenced by the remains of the structures slowly being ...

reportedly took the city between 967 A.D. and 987 A.D. Following the conquest of Yucatán a new style blending the Maya and Toltec traditions developed, symbolizing the phenomenon of acculturation.

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Together, they filled the Maya people’s lives with dreams, visions, and nightmares; a complicated calendar of agricultural times and fertility rituals; and a firm sense of the way things must be ...

The pyramid El Castillo at Chichen Itza was built specifically to honor ... Very heavy metal. Pagan traditions honored the fertility goddess Cybele, the mother of gods and men and mistress of ...

They made us work on huge farms and even burnt our books. But we still try hard to keep our traditions alive. Present Jade Skirt: And that’s the story of my people. Over the years people moved ...

About 30 Mayan languages are still spoken by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Some are spoken by hundreds of thousands of people; some by fewer than 5,000. The highly ...

An angry mob almost lynched a tourist who climbed without permission the steps of the Castillo de Kukulcán, one of the new seven wonders of the modern world located in the archaeological zone of ...

They made us work on huge farms and even burnt our books. But we still try hard to keep our traditions alive. Present Jade Skirt: And that’s the story of my people. Over the years people moved ...

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