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 ...

TO save their crops from drought, residents in five villages near Palaniin Dindigul in Tamil Nadu, India, performed ancient rites for the Rain God, reported Tamil Nesan. Most of the villagers were ...

The Pyramid of the Soothsayer, as the Spaniards called it, dominates the ceremonial centre, which has well-designed buildings decorated with a profusion of symbolic motifs and sculptures depicting ...