Ето какво намерих аз за положението на жената в религиозните ритуали на Маите - проучване, издадено през 2002г., от университетски професор по Антропология в Университета в Маями. Надявам се, че четеш английски.

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Criticizing Landa's statement that women are strictly prohibited from public rituals, Vail and Stone point to the codices that illustrate women, especially old women, engaged in ritual activities linked to males. With the ethnographic record we can now correct the assumption by many Western viewers, including Landa, that the proscription against women in ritual life was because of their impurity. As I learned in my fieldwork in Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas, the proscription, usually restricted to nubile women, is more related to female power. Women are assumed to be hot during certain phases of the menstrual cycle, and the power this connotes would conflict with the power generated in rituals, thus causing a rupture (Nosh 1970). The specificity of age‑related ritual roles in contemporary Maya communities and in the codices is one of the most impressive signs of the continuity of the culture over time. Vail and Stone show that the codices, as a "template to guide ritual behavior and as an expression of underlying societal beliefs," yield a picture of much fuller ritual and societal participation of females than Landa suggests.

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