The Mayan Secrets secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them—as the Fargos are just about to find out who. The Mayan Secrets The Mayan Secrets is a Fargo adventure novel. The two main characters of the Fargo novels are adventurers Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. "The Mayan Secrets" is the fifth book of the Fargo series. The book's hardcover edition was first published September 3, 2013. Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery—the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a
Olmec religion unlike the Mayan "Popol Vuh", or the Aztecs, with their many codices and conquistador accounts. Archaeologists, therefore, have had to rely on other techniques to reconstruct Olmec beliefs, most prominently: The latter two techniques assume that there is a continuity extending from Olmec times through later Mesoamerican cultures to the present day. This assumption is called the Continuity Hypothesis. Using these techniques, researchers have discerned several separate deities or supernaturals embodying the characteristics of various animals. Olmec religious activities were performed by a combination of rulers, full-time priests, and shamans. The rulers seem to have been the most important religious