Pre Columbian Ancient Mayan Art in Mexican Style Décor

In one of the saddest episodes in Mesoamerica, thousands of the sacred codices of the Mayans were burned by the Spanish priests and conquistadors. One Bishop Diego de Landa, wrote, ‘These people used certain letters with which they wrote in their books about ancient subjects. We found many books scripted with these letters and since they held nothing that was not falsehood and the work of the evil one, we burned them all’.

We know so little about the ancient pre Columbian Mayans.  Only tiny amounts of their writings and wisdom have survived. Time, erosion and direct destruction have erased most of their ancient words.  Indeed, what we know in general is limited to stone carvings and four surviving Maya Codices (original Maya books made from bark).

Today after countless effort and some breakthroughs at understanding the meaning of what is left, we are astonished at their advanced knowledge in astronomy, mathematics and their prophecy stories.  No telling what knowledge has been lost forever.  Their writing system was original and founded on phonetics like ours.  And ancient Mayan art is beautiful, vibrant and normally used in Mexican style decor.

The pre Colombian Calendar of the Ancient Maya and their View of the cosmos

Ancient Mayan art that has survived confirms that the Mayans believed in a cyclical nature of both time and celestial movements.  Everything occurs more than once and continues to cycle in perpetual repetitive patterns.  Maya priests were therefore able to provide prophetic outlook on the future or past based on the number relations of their ancient calendar and significant past dates such as a birth or a death.  If the interpretations of the priests spelled bad times to come, offerings and sacrifices would be performed with the intention of satisfying the gods.  Today Mexican style décor includes art and pottery of Maya art and ceremonial pieces that were designed to invoke the ancient gods.

It is not known how the ancient Mayans being a Stone Age indigenous society acquired such exactness in measuring time. Their accuracy is so precise that the calendar the Mayans used is 1/10,000 of a day more accurate than the Gregorian calendar we currently use.

It is also unknown how the Mayans discovered celestial alignments and incorporated them into their pre Columbian pyramids. Indeed, many of their most important buildings were devoted to the calculation and passage of time.

Mayan Prophecy Accounts of 2012

Incredibly the ancient Mayans were able to predict an astrological alignment that only occurs every 26,000 years.  According to the surviving Dresden Codex, the Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar (the fifth sun) ends on the winter solstice of December 21, 2012. This date happens to coincide exactly with our sun’s intersection point with what modern astronomers call the Great Rift. This Great Rift is a band of dark dust clouds located around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy from our vantage point on Earth. The ancient Mayans were well aware of this Great Rift and even named it.  They knew it as Xibalba-be or “Black Road”.  According to the Maya, this “Black Road” was the entrance to the underworld, a place of evil and misfortune.  The ancient Maya art pictured in the last page of the Dresden Codex, shows the destruction of the world by water.

Even more interesting, present day astronomers believe this Great Rift is located around a massive Black Hole Star located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.  Learn more on the Maya 2012 Prophesies in plain understandable terms.

Our collection includes pre Columbian style ancient Mayan art, Maya pottery and other items that offer a glimpse of this ancient civilization when used as Mexican style decor.