Full Issue - Maya America V7, I1

Given the expansiveness attributed to the concept of Maya and Indigenous Cosmovision, we can imagine various approaches to a concise definition of cosmovision.Listed below, we present six definitions from journal advisors, editors, and authors.Victor Montejo. 1 In other words, for Indigenous people, there is a consciousness of belonging to the totality of creation: humans, plants, animals, rivers, mountains, the moon, the sun, the galaxies, and the spiritual world.This interconnectedness is constantly nourished, despite the assimilating forces of colonialism and the modern capitalist world system that threatens Indigenous People's collective survival for the future.Arcia Tecun. 2 Critical cosmovision can be summarized as a fusing of the cultural consciousness that continues ancestral knowledge and its practices, and a political consciousness that identifies and confronts systems of power, with a global consciousness in locally nuanced settings.Patricia Lpez. 3 Our worldview, as embodied in the Popol Wuj, explains that everything that exists on earth has life; if it has life, it has a spirit, and if it has a spirit, then it is sacred.That is why the grandparents say that corn is a sacred food that has its own spirit and energy.Gernimo Ramrez. 4 We become well when we renew a caretaking relationship with the Earth and thereby connect with our ancestors.We are all relatives.Restoring sacred practices places humans in balance with all beings.This returns us to our right place in the cosmos.An K'a'ch Guzmn Marcos. 5For the Ixil Maya, cosmovision is not only a set of beliefs, but a guide for daily life, which is reflected in their rituals, agricultural practices, traditional medicine, and community organization