The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you ...

Some Maya deities were benevolent, while others were morally ambiguous, with complex give-and-take relationships with ...

Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head priest and he can speak directly to the gods. With the help of other high-ranking priests, he makes ...

harmony governs a space of prominent pyramidal temples that stretch toward the sky in an attempt to reach the Corn God, the Mayas' principal divinity. The beauty of landscapes along the "Maya ...

Moreover, Kinich Ahua, the sun god to whom this pyramid was dedicated, may have been linked to the jaguar when he made his nightly journey through the underworld. The Maya believed that four bacabs ...