Nestled in a quiet forest in Belize, a deep aquamarine pool holds ruins from a time when the ancient Maya turned to a "drought cult" and hurried sacrifices to a water god to stave off the fall of ...

Water lilies were a strong symbol of "classic Maya kingship." These plants only ... to gain the favor of ancestors and the rain god, Chahk," the study noted. Tikal was the capital city of a ...

In Mayan mythology, the maize god was decapitated ... its nutrients are encapsulated in solid particles that do not crack with heat or water. The Mesoamerican cultures discovered more than 5,000 ...

Sites within this elevated region lacked perennial water sources and were more ... At the same time, the Classic Maya would have implicated gods and their "divine" rulers for the collapse.

This phenomenon is believed to represent Kukulkan's (a Plumed Serpent God, associated with the wind in Mayan Culture) descent to earth, a powerful symbol of renewal and fertility. In the ...

An ancient ruler embodied by the Mayan god of corn in the underworld can be seen on an astonishingly well-preserved stone disk recently extracted from the Temple of the Sun in Mexico. The figure ...

Maya and everything else had souls ... They engaged with water the same way, asking permission from Earth gods and Chahk the rain god to use their materials (soils, limestone and rain) to build ...

Ancient Maya reservoirs ... ceremonies to gain the favor of ancestors and the rain god, Chahk. A key challenge was to keep standing water in reservoirs from becoming stagnant and undrinkable ...

Sites within this elevated region lacked perennial water sources and were more ... At the same time, the Classic Maya would have implicated gods and their "divine" rulers for the collapse.