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Terdapat banyak ritual dan perayaan di berbagai kota yang memerlukan para wanita untuk ikut berpartisipasi. Untuk beberapa peristiwa wanita ditugaskan untuk ritual kepercayaan khusus. Sebagai contoh, beberapa wanita dipercaya dapat menurunkan hujan pada saat musim kemarau. Berbagai ukiran dan artefak menunjukan bahwa para wanita Maya berperan di berbagai ritual dalam banyak cara. Perayaan-perayaan seperti, penghormatan terhadap dewa, berdoa, dan saat membakar ''[[copal]].'' Para wanita juga membantu para pria dalam mengonsumsi zat-zat yang mengacaukan pikiran (memabukan) seperti ''peyote''.
== Wanita di akhir periode klasik peradaban Maya ==
The Maya world view placed women in a high position for their reproductive powers. Women were respected for their blood sacrifice and resulting children and thus had a strong position in their families, although
common women were nutritionally deprived. Maya women contributed
to the economies of their families and city-states in many ways, such as
weaving cloth and preserving and processing food. Royal consorts played
critical roles in the political scene, whether through religious bloodletting
rituals, forming political alliances, or as outright leaders. Female goddesses with multifaceted power were important to Maya society for their
fertility and wisdom.15 Not only did the Maya cosmology require mutual
dependency between men and women in marriage and society, but
kings also needed access to female spirituality in various ways to wield
power. Although Maya women had many more paths open to them compared with women in other civilizations, some evidence suggests that
even their status was gradually declining compared with earlier MesoAmerican civilizations. For example, Maya women had been prominent
players in the ancient Meso-American ball game, but they ceased playing
by the eighth century. The farming techniques of common women had
become more time-consuming by this time too. Regardless of this trajectory, by the end of the tenth century, the Maya civilization faded rapidly
and somewhat mysteriously, although the increasingly destructive inter
city-state warfare probably played a role.
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