Rainfall in the Maya homeland is unpredictably variable between years; some recent years have had three or four times more rain than other years.

玛雅故土的降雨量在不同年份是变化莫测的；最近几年的降雨量比其他年份多三到四倍。

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The Maya believed in many gods.

玛雅人信奉许多神。

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The Maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed of yellow and white maize dough.

玛雅人认为他们祖先基本上是从玉米进化而来的，由黄玉米与白玉米面团做成的。

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Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago.

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The Maya poured the chocolate drink back and forth between two containers so that the liquid had a layer of bubbles,or foam.

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The Maya took the cacao trees from the rainforests and grew them in their gardens.

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This is a rolling scrubland, and in fact, the word Puuc comes from the Maya word for hill.

BBC: The forgotten ruins of Mexico��s Ruta Puuc

The Maya originated around 3, 000 years ago in present-day Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.

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"I won't lose the Maya culture nor language, " he tells us through a translator.

BBC: Mexico seeks 'end of world' Maya tourism boost