Known for its skill at astronomy, mathematics, and building, the Ancient Mayan civilization prospered over a thousand years ago. Fisher has described the importance of twelve Mayan Gods including their powers, gifts, and what they looked like. He includes Gods such as Ek Chuah, God of war, whose companion was death, and another such as Chac God of rain, who was a benevolent and kind God. This book would be good to have in an upper grades classroom if you had a student who was from South America and still believed in some of these Gods or if your curriculum focus was on different religious beliefs. This could be a touchy subject for some students. A teacher should make sure that it is appropriate for her class. It would be also good for creative writing. A student could draw up their own God and write a short passage about it.
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