Mayan Symbols and Their Meaning

Mayan Symbols and Their Meaning

by Linda Patterson

Have you ever undertaken some Tikal tours which never seem to go out of trend and remained very popular? If so, you very well may have had the privilege to encounter numerous artifacts and inscriptions regarding the ancient Mayan civilization as well as the Mayan temples, well-planned cities and stepped pyramids. The variety of symbols and their arrangement are some of the things that captured the attention and fascinated onlookers on such trips. The variety of symbols holds beauty and art even if they appear random at a glance.

The Mayan civilization was one of the most intriguing and in fact the earliest of mankind. It has left historians, archaeologists and tourists fascinated for decades and until today. There's no better way to affirm this fact than to acknowledge that we in the modern-day age discover more about Mayan history than we could ever learn about Aztecs, a different tribe of Mesoamerica that came later in time? One reason specified as underlying the attractiveness of Tikal tours is the complex system of symbols and concepts which described the Mayan civilization.

On such hiking trips, tourists are able to learn the system of concepts of the Mayans and how they are guarded and anyone who was found guilty of having discussed them will face the sentence of death. This could be the cause why it took so long for historians to decipher the drawings and interpret the many different sketches and their veiled implications. While others remained a mystery, constant research has also led to cracking of some symbols, dates and calendars. Such is the exactness of the dates mentioned that when corresponded with the specific event, there have been no room for disparity or uncertainty.

Amongst the most ancient Mayan symbols was that of a serpent and such symbol represents wise men. In many areas serpents have in addition been considered as symbols of immortality or being a link to this idea. The World Tree is another Mayan symbol which would be noticed at a few points while undertaking the Tikal tours and such symbol has been interpreted in so many ways.

The circle encompassing the tree was thought by historians to be symbolizing the earth and sky axis and held within the galaxy, the solar system as the earth planet. However a lot of other understandings have likewise come forth which are equally correct. The World Tree's trunk has been covered with fruits of ten different kinds and its branches have been depicted to be covered with both genders of celestial birds which are ready to pick on the fruits. One thing that is promptly evident is the alphabet 'T' which the branches and the tree trunk look to make and a much deeper interpretation is the concept of 'bird of immortality' due to number 12 completed by adding ten fruits and also two birds.

A star with four points was a frequently appearing symbol during Tikal tours which is a glyph of the planet Venus. The Mayan's feeling towards this planet is indescribable, not even the word 'fascination' can match it because they were very obsessed with it. To raise Venus to a higher position when compared with other stars, there was frequently a prefix included in the glyph or a point surrounded by a lot of circles, hence implying the 'circle of heaven'.

Not being able to catch a glimpse of the legendary calendars which are deemed to be much more than what meets the eye, hiking trips through Mayan territories would not be complete. Even though, they were thought to be instruments of maintaining records of time, archeologists believe that these incorporate calibrations that have a much deeper importance in life than merely calculating time.



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