The Popol Vuh: The Creation Story Of The Maya

The early Maya villages were formed somewhere between 2600 and 1800 B.C. The first place of the Maya was on the Yucatan Peninsula. The people were farmers that grew crops such as corn, beans, squash, and cassava. After a while, the farmers started to move to highland and lowland regions. The early Mayas were also good at building cities, constructing pyramids, and making inscriptions on stones. The Popol Vuh is the creation story of the Maya. It talks about how the earth was formed from the wind of the sea and the sky. It also talks about the creation of mankind. There are only four steps to it and they were the following: First there was animals, then there was wet clay, then wood, and last was the creation of the Maya people from the dough of maize. The Popol Vuh has other origin stories that come from it, but I’m not going to list all of them.
This included the countries of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and southern Mexico. They were the greatest civilization in Central America before the Spanish Conquest. Mayans were known for a bunch of things. They had a system of writing and calendars. The calendar tracked lots of things for the Maya. It’s possible that their calendars could have been a product of religion since the rituals and ceremonies they held had to do with the celestial cycles. The shaman of the tribe thought he could tell when bad things were going to happen through these cycles and they would hold