Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded both caves and cenotes as mouths that opened into an otherworld inhabited by Chaak, the god of life-giving rain, but the consequences of this fact ...

rain and childbirth. Goddess Ix Chel is also depicted as "Lady Rainbow" in many of her pictographic appearances in Maya art.

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 ...

K’inich Ahau is our Sun god and Chaac brings us rain. The Maize god provides some ... get to go straight to the top level. The Maya believed in many gods, each representing a different part ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal ... and the Temple of the Descending God, named for a carving over the doorway of a winged god plunging ...