![]() ![]() ![]() Keywords: Mayan gods, logic of thought, structure of action, subject/object, qualities perception The mayan gods: an explanation through their thinking patterns The study is part of the pioneering work that seeks to integrate the study of cognition development throughout history to the understanding of the historical and cultural manifestations of our country, especially of the Pre-Hispanic cultures. The application of the cognitive schema as driving logic also helps to understand the Maya established relationships between some animals, such as the jaguar and the rattlesnake and the highest deities. This scheme, which finds application in the Mayan worldview, helps to understand the personality and character of figures such as the solar god, the rain god, the sky god, the jaguar god and the gods of Venus. When this scheme is applied to the world’s interpretation, the phenomena in it and the world as a whole appears as manifestations of a force that lies behind or within all of them and which are perceived similarly to human subjects. This structure is none other than that built by every member of the human species during its early ontogenesis to interact with the outer world: the structure of action. This article explains the existence of the Classic and Post-classic Mayan gods through the cognitive structure through which the Maya perceived and interpreted their world.
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