Maya blue

Examples of Maya blue in the following topics:

• Art of the Maya

  • The Maya held dramatic rituals within the highly sculptured and painted environments of these precincts.
  • They were made in ceramic workshops and painted with Maya Blue, a dye distinctive to Maya and Aztec artists particularly.
  • The Maya painted vivid narrative scenes on the surfaces of cylindrical vases.
  • Ballplayer, Maya, from Jaina Island, Mexico, 700-900CE.
  • Maya Blue is a pigment that has proven virtually indestructible, unlike other colors that have largely disappeared over time.

• The Classical Period of the Maya

  • The Classic period lasted from 250 to 900 CE and was the peak of the Maya civilization.
  • The political, economic, and culturally dominant ‘core' Maya units of the Classic Maya world system were located in the central lowlands, while its corresponding peripheral Maya units were found along the margins of the southern highland and northern lowland areas.
  • The Maya also linked this complex system to the deity Itzamna.
  • This deity was believed to have brought much of Maya culture to the earth.
  • The Classic Maya Collapse refers to the decline of the Mayan Classic Period and abandonment of the Classic Period Maya cities of the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries.

• The Decline of the Maya

  • The period after the second collapse of the Maya empire (900 CE to 1600 CE) is called the Postclassic period.
  • The period after the second collapse of the Maya empire (900 CE to 1600 CE) is called the Postclassic period.
  • Maya religion continued to be centered around the worship of male ancestors.
  • As the battle over control of the region waged on, the Spanish Church and government officials destroyed the vast majority of Maya texts and, with them, a large swath of knowledge about Maya writing and language.
  • Explain what happened to the structure of the Maya Empire in the Postclassic period

• The Maya People

  • Maya language speakers most likely originated in the Chiapas-Guatamalan Highlands and dispersed from there.
  • However, it was likely ruled by the first true Maya city-state, Kaminaljuyu.
  • The Maya also developed the concept of the number zero during this era.
  • In fact, the Maya remained an essential part of the region.
  • By 2000 BCE, there were speakers of Mayan languages in the Southern Maya Area

• Cultures of Mesoamerica

  • Maya culture reached its peak during the Classical period (ca. 200–900 CE).
  • In Maya culture, we also see one of the earliest systems of art patronage.
  • The layers of the structure probably reflect the Maya belief that the underworld had nine levels.
  • The Maya were among the most advanced cultures of Mesoamerica.
  • The Temple is one of four structures commissioned by the Maya ruler Lord Pakal.

• Architecture of the Maya

  • The Maya had complex architectural programs.
  • The consecutive layers probably reflect the belief, current among the Aztec and Maya at the time of the Spanish conquest, that the underworld had nine levels.
  • As the focus of Maya civilization shifted northward in the Postclassic period, a northern Maya group called the Itza rose to prominence.
  • Maya culture, late 7th century.
  • Describe the characteristic style and functional elements of Maya architecture in the Classic and Postclassic periods.

• Meso-American Culture

  • The Maya civilization was a Meso-American civilization developed by the Maya peoples in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
  • The establishment of the first complex societies in the Maya region, including cultivation of the staple crops of the Maya diet—maize, beans, squashes, and chili peppers—occurred in the Preclassic period c. 2000 BCE to 250 CE.
  • The last Maya city fell to the Spanish in 1697 during the colonization of the Meso-American region.
  • Since the early Preclassic period, Maya society was divided into elite and common classes.
  • The supernatural pervaded every aspect of Maya life, and Maya deities governed all aspects of the world.

• The Blues Scale

  • Blues scales are closely related to pentatonic scales.
  • (Some versions are pentatonic. ) Rearrange the pentatonic scale in Figure 4.68 above so that it begins on the C, and add an F sharp in between the F and G, and you have a commonly used version of the blues scale.
  • Listen to this blues scale: http://cnx.org/content/m11636/latest/BlueScale.mid.

• Conclusion: Pre-Colonial Development of North America

  • The Maya civilization was a Meso-American civilization developed by the Maya peoples in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
  • The first developments in agriculture and the first villages of the Maya civilization appeared during the Archaic period prior to 2000 BCE.
  • The establishment of the first complex societies in the Maya region, including cultivation of the staple crops of the Maya diet—maize, beans, squashes, and chili peppers—occurred in the Preclassic period, c. 2000 BCE to 250 CE.
  • Since the early Preclassic period, Maya society was divided into elite and common classes.
  • Like the Maya, Aztecs practiced a religion that was polytheistic and recognized a large and ever increasing pantheon of gods and goddesses.

• Enduring Cultures

  • Contemporary with Teotihuacan's greatness was the greatness of the Maya civilization.
  • The period between 250 CE and 650 CE was a time of intense flourishing of Maya civilized accomplishments.
  • While the many Maya city-states never achieved political unity on the order of the central Mexican civilizations, they exerted a tremendous intellectual influence upon Mexico and Central America.
  • The Maya built some of the most elaborate cities on the continent, and made innovations in mathematics, astronomy, and calendrics.