Examples of folded codices are the Maya codices.

New World codices were written as late as the 16th century ( see Maya codices and Aztec codices ).

* Maya codices

While relatively few parchments ( or codices ) of the Mixtec and Aztec cultures of the Post-Classic period survive, progress has been made in the area of Maya archaeology and epigraphy.

In most cases gods and goddesses are often depicted in stone reliefs, pottery decoration, wall paintings and in the various Maya, Aztec and Mixtec codices.

In the past, this character has wrongly been described as an agricultural deity, or even as the Maya maize god ( god E of the codices ), which has become a popular and still existing misconception.

* Maya codices

* At least 27 Maya codices were ceremonially destroyed by Diego de Landa ( 1524 – 1579 ), bishop of Yucatán, on 12 July 1562.

The American Black Vulture and the King Vulture appear in a variety of Maya hieroglyphs in Mayan codices.

The work is a collection of short stories on various topics including an autobiographical about her childhood at Laguna Pueblo and the racism she faced as a mixed blood person, stark criticism directed at President Bill Clinton regarding his immigration policies and praise for the development of and lamentation for the loss of the Aztec and Maya codices, along with commentary on Pueblo mythology among others.

In particular, Brasseur de Bourbourg recognised its exceeding rarity, since de Landa's Relación, which he had earlier rediscovered, gave an account of how he had ordered the destruction of all such Maya codices he could find, and many volumes had been consigned to the flames.

Diego de Landa burning Maya cult images and codices.

During the ceremony on July 12, 1562, at least forty Maya codices and approximately 20, 000 Maya cult images were burned.

The Madrid Codex is the longest of the surviving Maya codices.

The codex also contains astronomical tables, although less than are found in the other two surviving Maya codices.

" Such codices were primary written records of Maya civilization, together with the many inscriptions on stone monuments and stelae that survived.

It is the most elaborate of the codices, and also a highly important specimen of Maya art.

The oldest Maya codices known have been found by archaeologists as mortuary offerings with burials in excavations in Uaxactun, Guaytán in San Agustín Acasaguastlán, and Nebaj in El Quiché, Guatemala, at Altun Ha in Belize and at Copán in Honduras.

* Wayob, plural form ( singular way ), spirit companions appearing in mythology and folklore of Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula

Sacbe, plural Sacbeob, ( Yucatec Maya: singular sakbej, plural sakbejo ' ob ) or " white ways " are raised paved roads built by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

It is believed that all actions are covered with Maya ( Maya is the deluding or illusive power of the world ; illusion by which the world is seen as separate from the ultimate singular Reality ) so is even a purest ritual.

His identification of the codex was significant, as it was the only third such Maya codex to have been uncovered ( the second, the Paris codex, had been discovered by the French scholar Léon de Rosny only a few years before ).

A few years later, another Maya codex came to light in the hands of another collector, which became known as the Cortesianus codex ( in the belief that it had been in the possession of Hernán Cortés ).

The Maya developed their huun-paper around the 5th century, which is roughly the same time that the codex became predominant over the scroll in the Roman world.

The Venus cycle was an important calendar for the Maya, and much information in regard to this is found in the Dresden codex.

This Maya codex is believed to be a copy of an original text of some three or four hundred years earlier.

Between 1880 and 1900, Dresden librarian Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann succeeded in deciphering the calendar section including the Maya numerals used in the codex.

The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Inca, Aztec, Maya and other early cultures are well represented ; collecting of modern artefacts is ongoing.

The Maya are generally given credit for creating the first modern chocolate beverage over 2, 000 years ago, despite the fact that the beverage would undergo many more changes in Europe.

Of these, El Mirador, Tikal, Nakbé, Tintal, Xulnal and Wakná are the largest in the Maya world, Such size was manifested not only in the extent of the site, but also in the volume or monumentality, especially in the construction of immense platforms to support large temples.

Protestantism and traditional Maya religions are practiced by an estimated 40 % and 1 % of the population, respectively.

The San Bartolo murals of the Maya civilization in Guatemala, are the oldest example of this art in Mesoamerica and are dated at 300 BC.

Maya numerals are a vigesimal ( base-twenty ) numeral system used by the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

Since the late twentieth century, the Maya code has been almost completely deciphered, and the Mayan languages are among the most documented and studied in Mesoamerica.

The Maya are known for having used puns in their hieroglyphic writing, and for using them in their modern languages.

Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid / Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology.

* The Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern Yucatan are recognized as an independent nation by the British Empire.

Chac-Mool statues are found in or around temples in Toltec and other post-Classic central Mexican sites, and in post-Classic Maya civilization sites with heavy Toltec influence, such as Chichen Itza.

Chac-Mools should not be confused with Chaac, one of the leading deities in Maya mythology associated primarily with the phenomena of rain and thunder, and with whom they are not associated.

The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee.

Even though most Maya tales are the results of an historical process in which Spanish narrative traditions interacted with native ones, some of the tales reach back well into pre-Spanish times.

In some cases, ancient Mayan myths may only have been preserved by neighbouring peoples ; the narrative of the principal Maya maize god, and, to a lesser extent, that of the Bacabs are cases in point.

Carved Maya stones from ancient T ' ho were widely used to build the Spanish colonial buildings that are plentiful in downtown Mérida, and are visible, for instance, in the walls of the main cathedral.

About 34 % of the population is of mixed Maya and European descent ( Mestizo ), 25 % are Kriols, 15 % are Spanish, about 10. 6 % are Mayan, and about 6. 1 % are Afro-Amerindian ( Garifuna ).