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| | Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.86 (2005) |
 | | He also showed that aspects of social ranking and hierarchy, likely a legacy from the prehistoric Maya, were such that all 150 Zinacanteco ritual specialists were ranked from 1 to 150, depending upon the number of years that had elapsed since each practitioner made his debut as a seer. |
 | | Biographical Memoirs, Volume 86 significant unit in a Maya social system, such as “the extended family living in a patio group, the patrilineage, or the patriclan” had “deified ancestral beings that were given offerings at some kind of ceremonial focus whether it be a small household shrine or a seventy-meter pyramid. |
 | | It is indeed the case that many ancient Maya pyramids were considered to be mountains where ancestors dwelled—some pyramids, in fact, even housed the tomb of a ruler. |
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