Great Beasts of Legend: Monsters of the Maya Cosmos
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Channel: Penn Museum
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Keywords: maya, monsters, american, hybrid, simon martin, religion, sky, earth, netherworld
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Length: 63min 39sec (3819 seconds)
Published: Wed Mar 01 2017
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The Maya universe was populated by a variety of strange beasts and hybrid entities, some as actors in mythic narratives, others as symbolic representations of the sky, earth, and netherworld. However bizarre and complex their form, each had a coherent part to play in a wider religious system. One of the more energetic areas in Maya studies today is the effort to fathom their meanings and, by doing so, enter the imagination and consciousness of an ancient American people.