4 Core Elements Of Any Religion Are Aspects: Maya Culture

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The 4 core elements of any religion are aspects which do profess the religious beliefs of a group of people. They include the creed, the rituals, sacred story, and the moral code. This paper will provide a discussion of the Maya Culture with regard to the above four elements, as well as other aspects such the geographic location of the Mayans as well as selected anthropological concepts concerning the discussion (Watson, 602).
Mayans are indigenous inhabitants of Mexico as well as Central America. They do live in the current areas like Campeche and Yucatan in Mexico as well as in the present day Guatemala and Honduras countries. The Mayan culture and civilization present one of the most exciting and rich pieces of histories to read about. It is proved to be so adventurous when learning the culture especially in regard to the 4 basic elements of religion/culture as this paper shall prove in the proceeding parts (Watson, 604).
To begin with, when talking about the rituals of the Mayans, they have got a number of rituals as a group of people. They have a belief in sacrifices of blood and the kings of the Mayans could undertake bloodletting rituals and rites in the various stages of life. Various political and religious events, as well as I important calendar ends of cycles, could be marked by bloodletting rituals. Blood from the ears and the tongues of the animals’ sacrificed was regarded as the most sacred type of blood for the rituals. It, therefore, meant that the Mayans could pierce through an ear or a tongue of an animal to obtain specifically (Watson, 605).
Piercing of the ears of the animals was believed to open the ears of the animals so that they could hear the revelations from the gods. Cutting the tongue, on the other hand, was believed that it could enable them to speak what they had heard (Andersson, 177).
Human sacrifice was also a common ritual amongst the Mayans. People could be tied at their arms and legs as the priest cut off the chest of a person to open it and remove the heart as a sacrifice. Rituals were meant to appease the gods so that some sort of blessings and order could be guaranteed from the gods (Andersson, 179).
In regard to the moral code, the Mayan culture advocated for acts of kindness such as love, courtesy respect to others among other aspects. The Mayans have got a belief in respect for one’s self in the sense that an individual has to respect him or herself in regard to what they are doing. For instance, the girls are expected to carry themselves with dignity and respect the men in the Mayan culture which equally applies to other categories of people in the Mayan culture (Barrett, 199).
Apart from self-respect, an individual is expected to respect others in the society and conditions such as peace and tranquility are general aspects of the society which are usually fostered amongst the Mayans. They do believe in love for each other, care for each other protection of the rest of the people against harm and the general cohesion and integration of the people in the society (Barrett, 199).
When talking about the circumstances where the people do wrong deeds, the Mayans have a belief that a mistake done by an individual to another...