The Importance Of Clothing In The Maya Culture

The clothing of the Maya elite is a symbol base on power and wealth and beliefs inside their culture. This demonstrates that the ancient Maya where well-known because their clothing was exotic, with different lyres and shapes, that transformed their appearance and identity. Their appearance can be compare to the animal called peacock because of their long feathers hanging down the floor. And their identity comes along with their culture appreciation. The feathers were a symbol of wealth because they are a sign of money. Theses feathers were in the color of green and blue, it is being said that those feathers were more expensive than god. The more feathers the more the person would stand out from other groups who weren’t as wealthy. Furthermore, wealth comes along with power because the person can eexclude others by the number of feathers being wearn. The feathers come from birds, meaning the Mays have a certain attachment to birds because they believe that warriors who die with honor will come back as hummingbirds. For instance, “feathers, with their connection to wings as a spiritual metaphor, represent a strong celestial connection to the heavenly realms, as well as love, truth, protection, new beginnings and

rebirth a representation” (Kuna).
The Aztec religion is a symbol, that can be identify by observing Mictlantecuhtli who is a god of the death. This god rules the underground. His appearance is black and evil that could be identify in the snakes coming out of his mouth. Mictlantecuhtli helmet is compose of skulls that surrounds all over his head. In fact, “He is also depicted with a skeletal shape with knives in his headdress to represent the wind of knives which souls encounter on their way to the underworld”. (Cline) As like any other devil he also has sharp horns, located above his ears. The Aztec behave well because they desire to have a good death life in paradise. Meaning if they didn’t behave well when they died they would go into four-year levels of nine hells of Mictlan. After that process “they reached the abode of Mictlantecuhtli where they suffered in his Underworld” (Cline). From this point it was considering to be the worse place to be after death. There is no way out. To please the gob was very important because it insecure the Aztec survival. The Aztec would have organized practices and rituals where they made some sacrifice of humans to be able to placate Mictlantecuhtli.
Apocalypto is a movie that has strong Maya culture.

In 16th-century their Maya culture they have different beliefs, such as a man being much more important and valuable than women. These women were excluded; they are born to serve their man and children; therefore, man had more important jobs. Men are born to be strong to defend their culture. These men practice their strength by fighting and hunting. Also, they have the enormous responsibility to keep the whole kingdom’s survival. Furthermore, they have the belief of ruling which leads to a conflict with other tribe who have ambitious desires for the survival of only one culture. The opposite tribe attacked Jaguar Paw tribe. This attack caused women to be capture and sold as slaves and men were

killed.