The statue is of the Mayan maize god. He was found in a pyramid-style temple in Copan in modern-day Honduras surrounded by many other maize gods. In Mayan mythology, the maize god was decapitated ...

with the iconographic representation of the young maize god, was found in 2021. Mauricio Marat, INAH/Zenger "Those 24 years of war were the last straw that ended the Classic Mayan world ...

experts discovered a funerary urn with the image of the Maya god of corn. INAH Director Diego Prieto reported on this significant finding during the morning press conference with the President of ...

The Maize God represented the beauty of the Maya staple crop and is often depicted by Maya artists as an eternally youthful, graceful being. The Maize God was also associated with two of the most ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Maya maize god (made around 1,300 years ago). Stone statue, found in Honduras The sound of ...

Two-thousand years before the common era, they learned how to coax stalks of maize from the earth ... The beast is apparently a messenger of the Mayan sky god Itzamnaaj. The man is both receiving word ...

(MENAFN- USA Art News) Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have discovered a stuccoed stone head of a Maya god associated with maize. The team were ...

Ancient Maya artistic sensibility acknowledged ... humans were modeled from corn by the gods, a myth referenced by the novel "Hombres de Maíz (Men of Maize," which earned Guatemalan writer ...