mayan culture today

Today many of the values are portrayed in our daily life through family, threat, and multimedia. People value their parents and elders today and would do anything for them. They know from birth that they are supposed to follow and recreate the actions of the people that gave life to them. The mayans also worshipped many Gods and their superiors. They showed this through sculpture and stone carvings, making scenes of family love. Also, the Mayans strongly valued the afterlife and worked through their entire life to make it to heaven as apposed to hell. People today would use hell to threaten others. For example, when people are mad at one another they might say "go to hell" to make somebody nervous or worried. The multimedia nowadays shows through movies and stories the same values and actions that the mayans took. They have different genres like scary movies where they show sacrifice and love stories that show the relationships between two people. These relationships were also shown in mayan art and the friendships and hardships that people go through. Its surprising how easy it is to recognize the little details throughout our days that relate to this mayan culture.