May 3, 2011

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Mayapan, or Banner of the Mayas, is the last great Maya capital, dating from the beginning of the calculation, and reached its golden age during the Post Classic. It is believed that this city was once a population of 12 000 inhabitants. Kukulkan Chichen Itza II Mayapan established between 1263 and 1283 AD. After his death, a family Cocoom aggressively took over and used as a basis for Mayapan subjected to northern Yucatan. They managed through wars Tabascan mercenaries and intermarriage with other powerful families. Cocoom reigned 250 years, until 1441-1461 AD upsart Uxmal is based on a family named Xiu Cocoom rebelled and slaughtered.

Mayapan former grandeur is still evident in its great buildings. There is a strong influence played by Chichen Itza, as seen in its main building, a small copy of the Castillo of Kukulcan. The central square is surrounded by government buildings, administrative and religious houses of the ruling class. These structures were built on the basis of rows of pillars, with temples and shrines, an altar to the rear and benches along the sides. There is also the round buildings known as “observatories” and the small shrines representing ancient cities.

They painted the frescoes, which are still visible, is the style used in the Code of the post classic period. The murals depict scenes of war and events related to the cult of death, evidence of cultural links with the years of the highlands of central Mexico.

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Although it is believed that a Mayapan Uxmal and Chichen Itza formed the Triple Alliance, in recent archaeological excavations indicate that the latter two cities actually flourished well before Mayapan. What is true is that the city was the central government to remind Chichen Itza. Mayapan continue to flourish between 1250 and 1450 Mid-1400 marked the end of the city when the rebellion was defeated and nearly destroyed the city Mayapan. The middle of the fifteenth century Mayapan was destroyed, burned and abandoned. More research and studies done in this area is becoming increasingly evident that this city was even more important than previously thought.

Church and Monastery of Mani Yucatan, the site of the infamous 1562 burning of the Mayan codices and manuscripts of Bishop Fray Diego de Landa. Like most Spanish colonial churches of Yucatan was built with carved stones of pre-Columbian Maya temples. The stakes stuck Landa ash nearly all written by Maya. Only three codes are known to have survived. Landa has announced the books contained “nothing but the lies of the devil,” and burned them to support its mission to convert the Maya to Christianity.

Mani is continually occupied about 4,000 years. In the post-classic Mesoamerica, which was home to Xiu Tutal Maya dynasty, who moved their capital here in Uxmal 13th century. Xiu was the dominant power in western Yucatan after the fall of 1441 to Mayapan An annual festival in honor of the god Kukulcan were held here.

The old Franciscan monastery founded in 1549 as the y Exconvento Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel. Inside, there are some wall paintings from the colonial era. restoration of the monastery and his work began in 2001. Mani is about 100 km south southeast of Merida, Yucatan.

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