mayan believed in fountaion of youth where wasit located accoring to them?

Question

imnterested in mayan history or mith of fountain of youth

Answer 1

Have not come across any references that the Maya themselves believed or thought they had a fountain of youth.
Mostly this was said of them by others, usually in a quest for advantage and wealth.

Check out the what the referenced link says.

The "Mayan Riv" has been outside the Spanish mind, since the sack of the Aztec empire seems so rewarding. In 1527, Francisco de Montejo sets sail from Cuba bent on subjegating the area on the mainland off Cuzmil. His force invades the mainland, and places a garrison at Xel-ha. His own troops mutiny when they learn there is no gold and the natives are VERY hostile. Montejo burns his ships. He tells his troops of a city to the south called Samal. He says it is a City of Gold. It was, according to Alonso d'Avila, "a city unlike any we had seen". That city, in the Spanish chronicles, becomes identified with Ponce de Leon's quest for the "fountain of youth".

http://www.bill-in-tulsa.com/mayanruins.html

Check out their sacred text for more

POPOL VUH
by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley
from Adrián Recino's translation
from Quiché into Spanish

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/pvgm/

Have a pleasant day.

Answer 2

Mayan belief in the fountain of youth??? Wasn't that in the State of Florida and wasn't that Spanish explorer Ponce DeLeon's quest?

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Answer 3

In my bathroom :P