The Wooden People: The Mayan Culture

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“The Wooden People” is significant to the Mayan culture, because it forms a basis for their beliefs. The Quiche Mayans thought that love and thought were important “these manikins. woodcarvings. But there was nothing in their hearts and nothing in their minds” so they included it in their creation myth. The Quiche Mayans thought very highly of their god/gods, because their god flooded the wooden people because “they did not remember the Heart of Sky”, or the father god of the Quiche Mayans. The Quiche Mayans believed in punishment, but also forgiveness, because in their story the Heart of Sky turned the people into monkeys instead of killing