There are wide gaps in our knowledge of the Mayas and how they lived. Some reasons for this include the purposeful destruction of documents and art by the Spanish, particularly the Catholic Church which viewed them as dangerous to the true God, pagan, and evil, therefore unworthy of preservation.

These practices occurred everywhere the conquerors went in the Americas, along with biological warfare (especially through smallpox-infected blankets), genocide and mass "conversions" which were far from voluntary. Remember, Torquemada and the Inquisition were Spanish phenomena.

Westerners branded the Maya as bloodthirsty savages, as they also labeled the Aztecs.

What we do know is that the Maya Indians were advanced mathematicians, astrologers and artisans with complex writing and numbering systems, and their identifiable culture spanned a period of 3,000 years.

They lived in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and the five Mexican states of Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo. They were primarily rural. Though they did have urban centers, those were mainly used as religious and artistic centers populated by the upper class.

The Maya believed that there were 13 "conjunctions" of the body; I think of them as Chakras, but they are more expansive, being divided into two parts. The 7 superior (including the brain) and 6 inferior (the left side of the body). The brain is special because it is one, but it's a duality that scientists are very intererested; the left and right sides of the brain seem to have different roles, but we've not mapped them out entirely.