Mixed Media on heavy archival paper

24"x30"

The Mayan civilization was the height of pre-Columbian culture. While they made significant discoveries in science, including astronomy, the use of the zero in mathematics, and the calendar we use today, they were also warlike.

The Maya would raid their neighbors for land, slaves, and for unfortunate captives—some were subjected to a double sacrifice: the victim’s heart was torn out and offered to the sun and the head cut off so the blood could be poured out onto the earth. The Maya believed in an afterlife. But did their victims?

As with all great civilizations, the Maya displayed the range of human potential—from superb art, pageantry, intellectual evolution, to superstition and barbaric practices in an attempt to appease nature.