Maya Guidance
CLEC presentation, A.D. Vander Vliet, 2015-03-15.
Opening and welcome:
Background:
We will be considering cultural and religious aspects of the Maya, both past and present as we progress through the sections listed below.
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Meditation:
Creation's first stage about lonely Deities and the animals.
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Handouts:
1: Region map; 2. Four charts; 3. Time lines bar chart.
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Beginnings:
Creation completion; Humans; Sacrifice; World structure.
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Human daily world:
Social order, calendar divination, ideas and values, cultural aspects and achievements.
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Disruption:
Invasion, struggle and destruction. Colonisation and collaboration. Diminishment and survival.
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Rediscovery:
Lost civilization re-found. Lost temples and hieroglyphs. Post-colonial rebellions and policies.
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Maya Today:
Mutual adaptation, Nobel Prize, dictionary and schooling.
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Maya Guidance:
Preserving identity in adversity and emerging re- invigorated.
The experience of the Maya as an object example for our cultural conflicts today.
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Notes:
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Source: The Mayan 2015\Maya Guidance 1.docx, 2015-03-15, A.D. Vander Vliet.