Mayan cultures

Conceptual Use of the Projected Lateral Axis in the Two Mayan Cultures... 

The two Mayan cultures that are compared in this paper share many cultural features. The two languages are genetically closely related. The main livelihood of the two groups is slash-and burn subsistence farming. They both live in small communities and have similar material cultures. 

Fine Orange ware was made by the Maya from the Classic through the late Post-Classic periods (6th to 16th centuries), and is characterized by a fine texture and compact paste with little or no temper. Together with Plumbate it is one of the more important diagnostic ceramic types for the Mayan culture in Mesoamerica. 

Figure 70 - Stone sculpture of a mushroom deity from the classic period of Mayan culture (300-600 A.D.). Statue is about 12 in. tall. (Rietberg Museum, Zurich). 

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The history of the ritual use of these mushrooms spans millennia, from the contemporary Mazatec Indians of southern Mexico, to the Mayan and Aztec cultures of Mexico and central America six hundred years ago, to the cultures that came many centuries before them. In the sixteenth century the Spanish chronicler de Sahagun described teonana-catl, an Aztec word that can be translated as sacred mushroom or... 

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