Talk:Mayan mythology

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Different areas had different gods and certain gods had different roles in different areas; some gods also had different aspects based on four directions.

I do not understand the clause after the semicolon. Anyone? Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, June 23, 2002

-- That's probably a reference to the MesoAmerican concept of 4 part dieties, for example one can refer to Chac the Raingod, or to the 4 Chacs, one at each of the 4 cardinal directions. That should be explained.

The whole thing needs a rewrite. I'm daunted by the first phrase, claiming that "Evidence of the Mayan's religious beliefs is extremely limited" which seems to me so massively wrong that I can't understand why the writer would say such a thing. (There are many volumes of ethnographic data on 20th century Maya beliefs, and the same for the colonial and early post conquest era, much of the later writen by Maya scribes themselves, some of it being transcriptions into latin letters of Pre-Columbian texts. Yes, a large amount of this has been published in translation. In the past 25 years major advances in reading the Maya heiroglyphs has extended our knowledge back through the Classic era.) -- Infrogmation