Unlike the regular Mayan god of death, Cizin, the Mayan god Buluc-Chabtan is known as the God of Sudden Death, and is also associated with gambling. He was often depicted setting fire to villages ...

One of the primary functions of Maya religion was connecting the spiritual world to the physical one. Hunting, war, illness and human sacrifice were common occurrences, so a death god in the Maya ...

death and rebirth - but more, he is the very stuff of which the Central Americans are made. Where the Hebrew god made Adam out of dust, the Mayan gods used maize to make their humans. The mythical ...

death and rebirth - but more, he is the very stuff of which the Central Americans are made. Where the Hebrew god made Adam out of dust, the Mayan gods used maize to make their humans. The mythical ...

death and rebirth - but more, he is the very stuff of which the Central Americans are made. Where the Hebrew god made Adam out of dust, the Mayan gods used maize to make their humans. The mythical ...