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Short abstract:

The resocialization of ancient religions in various circuits indicates that to articulate profound socio-ecological transformations we must reconnect; this is the role of the cosmogonic visions and religious practices of the Mayan world that, from the present, speak to us about the ancient future.

Long abstract:

The Western world seems to have pushed religious practices aside, no further than the separation of state and church and relegated to the realm of individual belief. Especially in Latin America, as a region of colonial history, the religious practices of indigenous peoples were conceived as “superstitious”. However it is urgent to recognize in a very practical way that we are part of a living, multiconnected system. The ancient religions of ancestral peoples were very clear about the role that various elements played in the cosmos. The resocialization of ancient religions indicates a need for profound socio-ecological transformations: reconnect; this is the role of the cosmogonic visions and religious practices of the Mayan world that, from the present, speak to us about the ancient future.

Unlike the sense of time of modernity, the Mayan tradition conceives a spiral temporality highly connected with biorhythms, among which, humanity is part of the system of cosmic and terrestrial life-death cycles, Humanity is neither superior nor inferior, but only part of other non-humans that cohabit the world. The Mayan calendars, the Chol Ab and the Cholq'ij, mark the terrestrial rhythms conducive to crops and the energies that will cross the days of humanity, respectively. Encouraging other visions of time and the place that humanity occupies on the planet together with the other elements ( abuelos) is part of a task to build sensitivities focused on socio-ecological transformations that have as their core values and world visions in which humans and non-humans are involved.