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For the Pre-Hispanic Mayas and of the New Spanish era, the future was written in the past. Therefore, to face the uncertain future, they fixed their attention on historical events. As the latter were known and visible to them, they were... more
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      Maya History and ReligionMaya ReligionChilam BalamColonial Mayas
A novel vision of the "Ritual of the Angels" is offered, the name given by Ralph L. Roys (1933) to a cosmogonic Maya myth from the late 18th century, embodied in folios 48-57 of the Chilam Balam de Chumayel. It is a sacred, cryptic, and... more
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      Maya ArtMaya HistoryMaya EpigraphyMaya History and Religion
Increasing evidence supports the role of climate change in the disintegration of regional polities in the Maya lowlands at the end of the Classic Period (750–1000 CE). However, the demographic effects of drought remain largely unknown in... more
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      DemographyHistorical ArchaeologyPaleoclimatologyPopulation Dynamics
This work explores some aspects of how the Pre-Hispanic and New-Spanish Maya conceived the future. The mechanism of the so-called "short count" or wheel of the thirteen k'atuuns is explored, as a tool to register the history and... more
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      Maya ArtMaya EpigraphyMaya IconographyMaya Culture
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      GeographyDemographyArchaeologyLaw