The traditional Maya religion of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, and Yucatán regions of Mexico is a southeastern variant of Mesoamerican religion. As is the case with many other contemporary Mesoamerican religions, it results from centuries of symbiosis with Roman Catholicism.
When its pre-Spanish antecedents are taken into account, however,
traditional Maya religion already exists for more than two millennia as a
recognizably distinct phenomenon. Before the advent of Christianity, it
was spread over many indigenous kingdoms, all with their own local
traditions. Today, it coexists and interacts with pan-Mayan syncretism,
the 're-invention of tradition' by the Pan-Maya movement, and Christianity in its various denominations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_religion
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