Maya people

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(Social Class) Mayans had a hierarchical social class system. This image is what a Mayan priest would've looked like during the time. Priests were considered as part of the higher class; not as powerful as the king, but they were considered nobility.

Maya Men

Mayan woman in Guatemala. There are approximately 8 million Maya who live in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and the Honduras speaking over 30 dialects, with radio stations broadcasting in Yucatec and Quiche Mayan.

Hairstyle of Maya women in the classic period.

Maya rulers were the centers of power for the Maya civilization. Their Early Classic timeline was around 250AD-600. After my travel to Belize and Guatemala gathering some references and talking to locals I came up with my version of how they supposed to look like. I started with a few reference photos I took from locals and museum photos for the artifacts, sculpting in zbrush, then I used xyz textures for a base and did quite a lot of manual sculpting on top to give the look I was looking…

Despite being fascinated by Central American history during the pre-contact and contact eras, I put off watching Apocalypto (2006) because 1. Mel Gibson (awful human being) directed it, and 2. I re…

Modern Mayan Lady

The Maya differ(ed) greatly from most Eurasian cultures in their physical standards of beauty, part of what the Spanish found so unsettling about them. This one is light on philosophy. A (normie) thread : 1/

Mayan Dancer Representing Jaguar in Pre-Hispanic Mayan Culture. Xcaret, Riviera Maya, Yucatan, Mexico.