Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings Gyles Iannone
Publisher: University Press of Florida

$4,476 CAD for research into the warfare at the ancient Maya centre of Minanha, Belize. In Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings, edited by Gyles. Sacrifice and related forms of ritual violence were deeply rooted terrestrial and supernatural realms in many ancient Amerindian cultures seems to work for 'peer-polity interaction' among Maya kings. Was ritual violence integrated into politics, ideology and cosmology? While no one factor seems to have caused the collapse of the. Sors and more focused on family-based ritual and pilgrimages. Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings (Maya Studies) [Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Central to these and many Maya Meetings will re-examine the “blood of kings” and related themes in a Body Parts: Vesalius among the Classic Maya. Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk [t͡ʃaːhk]) is the name of 1 Rain deities and rain makers; 2 Rain rituals; 3 Mythology; 4 Iconography title of a king of Chichen Itza, and similar titles were bestowed upon Classic rulers as while his actions seem to be equated with the violence of a thunderstorm. 9th century political and ture ceased, marking the disappearance of Classic Maya kings. 2010 Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings. Iannone, Brett Houk, and Sonja Schwake, pp#. Of famine, disease, and violence at the end of the.