Ix Chel Maya Queen Of Heaven In The New World

And in this book Colonel Peck reveals the current view of Maya religion is also appallingly inaccurate. The sophisticated Maya religion, which closely followed the pattern of contemporary Eurasian religions, originated in ancient times with a matriarchal Goddess of Creation and evolved into a patriarchal First Father concept in the Classic period preceding Spanish conquest. Current historians have failed to recognize that fact because of the nave belief that the writings of colonial period folklore, which picture Maya religious concepts as crude, primitive, and often grotesque fables, represented Maya religion rather than the true, sophisticated, and realistic religious concepts expressed in their prehistoric writing and art as documented in this book.