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The Mayans had similar beliefs of creation and similar and not similar gods with the Greeks, had a belief in a Heaven and a Hell, four attempts at making humans and three different worlds made.
The Greeks had believed there was nothing, that the world began with Chaos, which is similar to the Mayan belief that there was no Earth, no sun and no moon... displayed 300 characters
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The only existence was the house of Gucumatz, which is Heaven where the father and mother of all creatures lived. The other is the house of the Ahauab de Xibalba, which is Hell. In Hell, Hun Came and Vucub Caquix, Lords of Hell lived (Eufraccio Internet).
The Mayans had many gods: Ah Puch, a god of death; Akhushtal, the goddess of childbirth; Cit Bolon Tum and Ahau Chamahez, the gods of medicine; Kan-u-Uayeyab, the god who guarded cities; Kukucan, the wind god; Ekahau, the god of travelers and merchants (The Mythical Encyclopedia Internet); Ixtab, the goddess of the noose and the gallows... displayed next 300 characters
The Mayans had similar beliefs of creation and similar and not similar gods with the Greeks, had a belief in a Heaven and a Hell, four attempts at making humans and three different worlds made...
A belief that the Mayans had that the Aztecs did not is the belief in the cosmos. They thought that reality was broken up into three sections; heaven, the human world, and the underworld...
They are different because of this one reason I am about to tell you. Like I said up above, Demeter and Dionysus are the only two gods out of all the Greek gods that are friendly and are friends with other humans...
Poseidon was the god of the sea, and he ruled a group of lesser sea gods. Last but not least, Demeter was the goddess of agriculture.
The Greeks had many other lesser gods to go with the 12 chief gods...
They also worshiped a
creator who lived beyond the sky, and believed it was male and female. Mayans
also believed that males were more important (Burland 1771)...
Before feasts they would have a big offering to the gods. The reason they would do this is because, well the gods are superior then them. With this concept in the Greeks heads shows why they had so much respect for them...
