These dances take one day, namely, Moro Dance, Cortez Dance, Monkey Dance and Deer Dance. All these dances mimics life. It shows the comic and the serious part of life. These dances enforce the believe in superstition and their attitude to the after life. The Mayas embrace the reality of death.
Elders prepare for death.
Families always take care of the elderly until death. They regard the land a sacred. The land is a mother. We are born of the earth and we return to the earth. The earth is the mother of law.