But finally he too was lowered 72 feet into the well, making the four of us in all likelihood the first persons in centuries to watch the path the sun god was ... because my Mayan is nonexistent ...

We have many different gods. Itzamná created human beings. K’inich Ahau is our Sun god and Chaac brings us rain. The Maize god provides some of our favourite things like cacao, and maize of course.

The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city ... full-rounded sculpted head of Kinich Ahau, the sun god. Weighing almost ten pounds, it was the ...

Before he was identified as an indigenous god, Quetzalcoatl was ... to the sun and became the sun’s pet. Beyond these stories, little is known about the Mayan Kukulkan, though his existence ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture ...