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Culture summaryessay 2001 • Sosa, John R.
Maya (Yucatán Peninsula) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a culture summary of the Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula....The Maya sky, the Maya worldBook 1999 • Sosa, John R.
Maya (Yucatán Peninsula) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Sosa worked closely with Yucatec Mayan shamans, observing and recording a variety of rituals including rain, first fruit, and Day of the Dead ceremonies; and Fiestas and curing practices. He c...Cosmological, symbolic and cultural complexity among the contemporary Maya of Yucatanessay 1989 • Sosa, John R.
Maya (Yucatán Peninsula) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This article is a summary of Sosa's dissertation (see document no. 12). He discusses the quadrilateral structure of the Mayan world and how it is defined by the daily and yearly movement of th...