Culture of Guatemala

Gruesome sacrifices were completely normal to the Maya people, sacrifices to them would be like singing a hymn at church to everybody now. The Maya's religion was a very unique and gory religion that had little to no logic or reason. That's not all to the Maya people, they were an extremely intelligent race achieved many intellectual milestones, and made their on original religion. All early Maya life was based on maize farming or corn (Perl 17). Most early Maya were purely agricultural…

In order to document their calendar, mathematical, and scientific achievements, the Maya created a specific and unique writing and numbering system (Benson 1967). The Maya write numbers in a completely different way than other parts of the world write numbers today. Maya numbers are written with dots and bars. A shell represents zero, one dot represents the number one, and a bar represents the number five and to represent higher numbers they use a combination of bars and dots (Henderson 1981).…

The greatest achievement of the Maya in opinion is mathematics and the concept of zero. Why I think this is because we have used math forever and we use math for almost everything in our life, another reason is because without math we wouldn't have many things that we have today. The Mayans mathematical system looked something like, being zero and being one and on. They mostly used math for architecture and time. For architecture they used math for temples and pyramids and how many steps were…

involved Sauna, sweat baths, with making alcoholic substances. The people from Maya harvested crops such as corn, beans, squash, etc. The Kingdom Tayasal did not end until 1696. According to Bensel, “while trade between regions and contact between cultures was frequent and widespread dating back to 3000 BCE or earlier, many of the trading systems that developed were highly localized or disappeared as civilizations collapsed, tastes changed, or warfare made trade impossible” (Bensel, 2012, pg.…

In the documentary Cracking the Maya Code, we follow the process of how the glyphs were deciphered by a team of archaeologists, artists, adventurers, and linguistists. The reason why nobody could understand the glyphs stemmed in the 16th century when the Spanish Inquisition came to the “New World”. Diego De Landa played a major role in the destruction of the Maya code, his mission was to convert the Mayan to Catholicism. However, he saw them as “devil worshipers” as they believe in making…

Julio Hernández Cordón’s films Marimbas Del Infierno and Polvo reflect the neoliberal period in Guatemala by illustrating how the profound digressions from the period of nationalism affected everyday life. During the nationalist era of the early to mid 20th, Guatemala gained a strong sense of national identity All things traditional and national became popular. The onset of the neoliberal period, however, would drastically change many of these consistencies. The effects of these changes are…

William Blake’s ‘London’ and Charles Martin’s ‘Easter Sunday’ are two pieces of poetry that reflect opposing perspectives of power. ‘London’ is sharp and seminal text that has been written in order to draw the reader’s attention to the persona’s observations and encounters of the conditions of London and the communal experience of its residents. The poem is a damning condemnation of a very corrupted society dominated by the power of materialism and the hypocritical paradigm that legitimates such…

everyone in our country lives like this. I knew there were people that were starving, homeless, abused, or ignored; what I did not know was how many. I had never been out of the country until last December. My family decided to take a trip to Guatemala. It was going to be a humanitarian trip before our guide cancelled on us, so we ended up going to tour the major sites and to see some of the villages. The flight landed early in the morning and…

1. The sculpture the Goddess Coatlicue is around 8 feet 6 inches, or 2.65 meters. The piece was made circa 1500 by the Aztecs in Mexico. It is located in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. 2. There is only one being depicted in the statue. The statue shows someone with a necklace made up of what appears to be hands, hearts and skulls from humans. Under the necklace appear to be human breasts. The skirt on the statue is made up of snakes that are overlapping. The feet and hands…

The Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires are considered to be some of the greatest empires ever. They each are responsible for many of the things we see in the world today. Take astronomy for example. The Mayans followed the sun, moon, and venus, and had an eerily accurate clock. The Maya and the Aztec both had innovative farming that fit the area that they were in. However, one empire was greater than the other two. The aztec empire was superior to the Maya and the Aztec for a variety of reasons,…