Astronomy and its impact on ancient cultures - Study Comparative of the cases in Egypt and the Mayan world

Abstract

In ancient cultures, myths had a very important role when creating a sense of order and identity in them, by narrating the origin of the perceived natural order and at the same time, justifying the social and vital order in which cultures developed. We study the myths of the creation of two great cultures from the past, the Maya and the Egyptian, analyzing them by using as basic tool the methodology proposed by Cultural Anthropology, identifying in both of them, aspects that reveal how the members of these cultures, from their geographical perspectives, conceived the way of thinking of their gods at the moment of creation, conceptions that somehow, may have conditioned them into the way they worshiped the gods, payed them tributes, offerings and / or sacrifices and, perhaps, how their civilizations met their ultimate fate.