INTRODUCTION

The Maya civilization developed within the Mesoamerican cultural area, Which covers a region that spreads from northen Mexico southwards  into Central America. Mesoamerica was one of six cradels of civilization worldwide. The Mesoamerican area gave rise to a series of cultural develpments that included complex societies, agriculture, cities, monumental architecture, writing and calendrical systems. thet set of traits shared by Mesoamerican cultures also included astronomical knowledge, blood and human sacriface, and a cosmovision that viewed  the world as divided into four division aligned whit the cardinal direction, each with different attributes, and a three-way division of the world into the celestial realm, the earth, and the underworld.