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the thing i always try to do with religion is find similarities. coincidence or not.
like how i've posted before about the egyptian sun god Ra resembling the Christian/Jewish god in hieroglyphs vs. the old testament.
then another post about isalm closely resembling the jewish faith.

anyway. this is all i got for the maya so far.

four dudes set out to become nobles over their people. they head east on an homage. somehow this trip takes 2 generations (40 years?) on a stone causeway. in traveling east, they cross a lake (also refered to as a 'sea'--was it red?).

These guys also had the "Bundle of Flames" which was a cloth-wrapped ark with mysterious contents as a "sign of his being".
Quetzalcoatl's being, i guess.

that's all i really got. kinda weak.
but when those guys come back, they're the big men. i guess the most honored position is refered to as "Keeper of the Mat".
the next best thing is "Keeper of the Reception House Mat".
hopefully that will make more sense with future reading.
maybe the mat is the throne and the reception house is like the embassy.
who knows.