The Hero Twins and The Mayan Legends
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The oldest myths date from the 16th century and are found in historical sources from the Guatemalan Highlands. The most important of these documents is the Popol Vuh or 'Book of the Council', which contains Quichean creation stories and the adventures of The Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
The legend of The Hero Twins geve birth to the Mayan culture. They are the reason why all started. The Mayan legends contain narrations loaded with endless imagination and creativity. The Mayas explain in their narrations how the world and the gods took part in the creation of things, even the world itself, but they not only give an explanation, they give such explanation that the people who are either listening or reading their legens get captured by the magnificense of their literature.
If you want to know the legend of The Hero Twins click Here
(This information was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology for more information click on the link above.)
The following video is a cartoon about the journey of The hero twins into the underworld.
The jaguar
The jaguar was the most feared and respected beast in the Mesoamerican world. The jaguar gods of the Maya were associated with the night, the caves and the underworld, like the jaguar itself, and were sometimes associated with shamanic transformations. The skin of the jaguar was used in many costumes, to denote high rank, power, authority and an association with the gods, especially in times of war. In the beautiful murals of the Maya, it is usually the rulers who wore those fashionable exotic jaguar outfits!
In Mayan art on wall and cave murals, and on vases, the jaguar is sometimes shown in its naturally occurring color phases of black (The Jaguar God of the Underworld) or light (The Jaguar God of the Upper World). Both jaguar gods were regarded as necessary beings, without as much value judgment or labeling as to their aspects of good or evil. Both were associated with the Creator as his helpers in forming the world, and they helped promote the changes necessary for continuation of the world.
The Mayan people had many jaguar deities, and associated the jaguar with power, probably because the jaguar occupies the top level of the food chain, as humans do. Often, the rulers of the Maya are depicted seated on a jaguar throne. Together, the Maya and the jaguar shared dominion over the tropical rain forest.
(This data was taken from http://www.angelfire.com/folk/sunflowerfarm/ajaguar.html to gain more information click on the web browse above.)
The legend of The Hero Twins geve birth to the Mayan culture. They are the reason why all started. The Mayan legends contain narrations loaded with endless imagination and creativity. The Mayas explain in their narrations how the world and the gods took part in the creation of things, even the world itself, but they not only give an explanation, they give such explanation that the people who are either listening or reading their legens get captured by the magnificense of their literature.
If you want to know the legend of The Hero Twins click Here
(This information was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology for more information click on the link above.)
The following video is a cartoon about the journey of The hero twins into the underworld.
The jaguar
The jaguar was the most feared and respected beast in the Mesoamerican world. The jaguar gods of the Maya were associated with the night, the caves and the underworld, like the jaguar itself, and were sometimes associated with shamanic transformations. The skin of the jaguar was used in many costumes, to denote high rank, power, authority and an association with the gods, especially in times of war. In the beautiful murals of the Maya, it is usually the rulers who wore those fashionable exotic jaguar outfits!
In Mayan art on wall and cave murals, and on vases, the jaguar is sometimes shown in its naturally occurring color phases of black (The Jaguar God of the Underworld) or light (The Jaguar God of the Upper World). Both jaguar gods were regarded as necessary beings, without as much value judgment or labeling as to their aspects of good or evil. Both were associated with the Creator as his helpers in forming the world, and they helped promote the changes necessary for continuation of the world.
The Mayan people had many jaguar deities, and associated the jaguar with power, probably because the jaguar occupies the top level of the food chain, as humans do. Often, the rulers of the Maya are depicted seated on a jaguar throne. Together, the Maya and the jaguar shared dominion over the tropical rain forest.
(This data was taken from http://www.angelfire.com/folk/sunflowerfarm/ajaguar.html to gain more information click on the web browse above.)
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