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[cally]

I'm fascinated by this. When I toured some churches, I would see what appeared to be Mayans performing religious rituals in the catacombs under the churches. Someone explained that many would go to the church and then go underground as a symbol of the underworld in the Mayan religion. I don't recall much but it also related to the many underground waterholes in the region that were seen as sacred.

How earlier cultures incorporated the Christian beliefs into their rituals amazes me.