Read the Maya Story Biki ti yanaji a ixi'imi or "How corn came into the world" published by Lieve Verbeek.

Rachel Crandell in her book

“Maya hands are seldom still. Most of the daily work of Maya Indians is done by hand, the way their parents and grandparents have taught them. They live and work close to the earth. Their hands feed, clothe, shelter, nurture, and celebrate.
Since about 320 C.E. Maya people have lived in what we know as Mesoamerica, in southern Mexico and the countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Today the Maya speak one of more than twenty variations of the Mayan language and follow many of the same customs as their ancestors.
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English is the official language of Belize, because until 1982 it was British colony called British Honduras. The children in Maya Centre speak Mopan Maya at home and English at school, but many Mayas also speak some Spanish and even Creole, if they live near the coast.
... I lived in Maya Centre Village, Belize, at the edge of the Jaguar Sanctuary. I slept in a hammock in a palm frond house they built for me. I bathed in the river, listened to Maya stories, and ate wild pig, barracuda, and paca with friends. They showed me how to dig cassava with my machete, carry firewood with a tumpline, and scrub my laundry on a flat rock in the creek. I learned to catch fish in a trap, dig slate out of the riverbank, and make tortillas very round. I tried my hand at carving in stone, stalking jaguar in the night, paddling upriver in a canoe, and sleeping in the forest where we found tapir tracks.
The Mayas taught me a lot about cooperating and taking pride in work well done. They know the wisdom of ‘many hands make light work’. Some jobs are too big to do alone and more fun to do together, like building a house. Satisfaction comes from successfully planting corn on a steep slope, skillfully weaving rich natural colors into a traditional design, or making a house completely from trees, vines, and leaves of the forest.
I went to live with the Maya and to learn from them. I returned home with a great admiration for their way of life. In a world where so many things happen by pushing a button, I celebrate skilled hands at work.”