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Our collection of Maya items includes Maya pottery, Mayan masks and ceremonial items that offer a glimpse of this ancient civilization for use as Mexican style decor.
Mayan Pottery, Mayan Masks and Ancient Mayan Art
We know so little about the ancient pre Columbian Maya. Only tiny amounts of their writings and wisdom have survived. Time, erosion and direct destruction have erased most of their ancient words. Indeed, what we know is limited to Mayan pottery, Mayan masks, stone carvings and four surviving Maya codices (original Maya books made from bark).
Their writing system was original and based on phonetics like ours. In one of the saddest episodes in Mesoamerica, thousands of the sacred codices of the Maya were burned by the Spanish priests and conquistadors. One Bishop Diego de Landa, wrote, ‘These people used certain letters with which they wrote in their books about ancient subjects. We found many books written with these letters and since they held nothing that was not falsehood and the work of the evil one, we burned them all'.
Today after countless effort and some breakthroughs at decoding the meaning of what is left, we marvel at their wisdom and advanced knowledge in astronomy, mathematics and their prophecy stories.
Our collection of Maya items includes Mayan pottery, Mayan masks and ceremonial items that offer a glimpse of this ancient civilization for use as Mexican style decor.
The pre Columbian Calendar of the Ancient Maya and their View of the Universe
It is not known how the ancient Maya being a Stone Age indigenous society acquired such exactness in measuring time. Their calendar's accuracy is 1/10,000 of a day more accurate than the Gregorian calendar we currently use.
It is also unknown how the Maya discovered celestial alignments and incorporated them into their pre Columbian pyramids and painted these celestial alignments in Mayan pottery.
The Maya believed in a cyclical nature of both time and celestial movements. Everything occurs more than once and continues to cycle in endless repetitive patterns. Maya priests were therefore able to provide prophetic outlook on the future or past based on the number relations of their ancient calendar and significant past dates such as a birth or a death. If the interpretations of the priests spelled bad times to come, offerings and sacrifices would be performed while wearing Mayan masks portraying sacred deities with the intention of satisfying the gods.
Mayan Prophecy Accounts of 2012
Incredibly the ancient Mayans were able to predict an astrological alignment that only occurs every 26,000 years. According to the surviving Dresden Codex, the Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar (the fifth sun) ends on the winter solstice of December 21, 2012. This date happens to coincide exactly with our sun's intersection point with what modern astronomers call the Great Rift. This Great Rift is a band of dark dust clouds located around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy from our vantage point on Earth. The ancient Maya were well aware of this Great Rift and even named it. They knew it as Xibalba-be or "Black Road". According to the Maya, this "Black Road" was the entrance to the underworld, a place of evil and misfortune. The illustration depicted in the last page of the Dresden Codex, shows the destruction of the world by water.
Even more interesting, present day astronomers believe this Great Rift is located around a massive Black Hole Star located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Mayan Pottery and Mayan Masks used as Mexican style decor
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Their writing system was original and based on phonetics like ours. In one of the saddest episodes in Mesoamerica, thousands of the sacred codices of the Maya were burned by the Spanish priests and conquistadors. One Bishop Diego de Landa, wrote, ‘These people used certain letters with which they wrote in their books about ancient subjects. We found many books written with these letters and since they held nothing that was not falsehood and the work of the evil one, we burned them all'.
It is also unknown how the Maya discovered celestial alignments and incorporated them into their pre Columbian pyramids and painted these celestial alignments in Mayan pottery. 
t only occurs every 26,000 years. According to the surviving Dresden Codex, the Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar (the fifth sun) ends on the winter solstice of December 21, 2012. This date happens to coincide exactly with our sun's intersection point with what modern astronomers call the Great Rift. This Great Rift is a band of dark dust clouds located around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy from our vantage point on Earth. The ancient Maya were well aware of this Great Rift and even named it. They knew it as Xibalba-be or "Black Road". According to the Maya, this "Black Road" was the entrance to the underworld, a place of evil and misfortune. The illustration depicted in the last page of the Dresden Codex, shows the destruction of the world by water.
