A Mayan Ceremony at Princess Hotels & Resorts (Photo Credit: Princess Hotels & Resorts) Mayan Ceremony. The Mayan ceremony is an ancestral ritual from the Yucatan Peninsula creating a connection with ...

Maya farmers in Yucatán, Mexico, have rekindled a pre-Hispanic ceremony that calls for rain from the god Cháak as the state suffers its worst drought in 50 years.

The Chol Q’ij or Tzolk’in Maya calendar ceremony is held in the highlands of Guatemala every 260 days. Pictured above are calendar keepers preparing the altar for the ceremonial fire. Credit: Isabel ...

This episode covers megalithic jars used in funerary rites, Nubian pyramids rivaling Egypt, and some of the oldest stone ...

During the Mayan ceremony, singers and drummers from the Native American Washut faith offered a song as well, followed by other Native American people offering water songs from their nations.

One shows the ruler receiving offerings from the gods. Another shows the Maya god of traders, Ek Chuah, surrounded by ritual ...

Eliezer Mendez Díaz, 65, a Maya community leader, returns from the jungle with special vines required to construct a sacred altar for a Ch’a Cháak ceremony in Yaxcabá, Yucatán.