The Tz'utujil Cosmos is what they believe about the world such as religion. Before European conquest, they had believed in traditional Mayan religion such as a sun god, etc. After the Spanish came they introduced Catholicism and Protestantism, which are now prominent in their culture. In some cases, there is a combined religion of Catholicism and traditional Mayan religion. A lot of ceremonies held hold true to traditional Maya practices, but are often times held in the honor of a Catholic patron saint. There a few ideas about death and afterlife in the culture. A tradtional belief is that after death one part of a person is regenerated into descendants and another part goes into the sky to assist the movement of the sun. Another belief is that only those who are sacrificed or die as a child proceed into heaven.
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