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Title: Xibalba: Nine-Leveled Underground Place Of Fear Ruled By Lords Of Death In Maya Beliefs
Post by: rangerrebew on February 21, 2018, 02:32:14 pm

Xibalba: Nine-Leveled Underground Place Of Fear Ruled By Lords Of Death In Maya Beliefs
AncientPages.com | February 20, 2018

The ancient Maya believed that the underworld – Xibalba – was a ‘place of fear’. In some ancient accounts, it is a domain of evil demons, busy with plotting against the gods in heaven. In other accounts, Xibalba is a place of decay and disease and a destination of human souls after death.

It is reached by traveling a dangerous, rocky road filled with many obstacles difficult to overcome, such as a river filled with blood or another one, full of scorpions.

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Title: Re: Xibalba: Nine-Leveled Underground Place Of Fear Ruled By Lords Of Death In Maya Beliefs
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 21, 2018, 02:41:15 pm

That sounds suspiciously similar to Dante's nine circles of Hell.

Title: Re: Xibalba: Nine-Leveled Underground Place Of Fear Ruled By Lords Of Death In Maya Beliefs
Post by: GtHawk on February 21, 2018, 11:42:21 pm

Quote from: jmyrlefuller on February 21, 2018, 02:41:15 pm

That sounds suspiciously similar to Dante's nine circles of Hell.

Or........the IRS.