GILLESPIE--MAYDICK

In Susan Gillespie's reading "Maya, Nested Houses", she speaks about the physical "house" that the different tribes of Mayans lived in and different rituals they went through. For example, she speaks about the Tzeltal Maya and how they have different ways of interpreting the house and overall rationale for equating humans. This specific tribe believed that the house, just like humans, needed to be fed. They believed that once the house was built the house needed to be fed not with food but with candles and good scents for the house or else they believed it would die. In a way I sort of agree with this thinking as I think that a house should always smell nice and be treated with the same amount of respect that you would treat your own body.