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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HinterWelt" data-source="post: 2797011" data-attributes="member: 14785">Just so we're clear, the Aztecs had a different view on the cosmology of the world. They were attempting to stve off the next cycle. Different than the Maya.So, the Maya tended to look on the world as a basically ordered place. The universe flowed in a predetermined form determined by the motion of the stars. The stars were read and recorded in such a manner that the Mayan calendar reflected a very accurate, including many aspects that only modern astronomers have been able to reproduce (retrogrades and things like that), so that they could then look forward. If you wished to do anything of import in the Mayan Empire you would consult a "shaman" and he would look at their calendar. The calendar not only told them the "tuesday the 14th" is a bad day for selling jade but then, they could make sacrifices/perform rituals to affect the results. Some days were just too horrible (I think it was a five day period when the first round rolls to tne second but my references are elsewhere right now) and you more or less hid out. Some theorize that this was a control method for shaman and later for the priest class but it seems well founded in the Mayan culture.Undrstand though that we are still learning a lot about the Maya and there is still much that can only be called supposition. We have only a few codices to work from and the archaeological record. So, just don't base your PhD thesis on this thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Bill</blockquote>

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