Maya priesthood
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maya-priesthood-233-5212769
title:
Maya priesthood
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Until the discovery that Maya stelae depicted kings instead of high priests, the Maya priesthood and their preoccupations had been a main scholarly concern. In the course of the 1960s and over the following decades, however, dynastic research came to dominate interest in the subject. A concept of royal ʼshamanismʼ, chiefly propounded by Linda Schele and Freidel, came to occupy the forefront instead. Yet, Classic Maya civilization, being highly ritualistic, would have been unthinkable without a d
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Religious practice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_priesthood
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2024-02-03T04:46:49Z
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