Depending on which iteration of Maya religion you find, several creator gods are believed to have played a role in crafting ...

Itzamná created human beings ... get to go straight to the top level. The Maya believed in many gods, each representing a different part of life. These gods had to be pleased so Maya communities ...

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 ...

The Popol Vuh, written in 1702, was based on a Mayan oral tradition encompassing creation myths, history, and cosmology.

This phenomenon is believed to represent Kukulkan's (a Plumed Serpent God, associated with the wind in Mayan Culture) descent to earth, a powerful symbol of renewal and fertility. In the ...

And this is pretty obvious in the young maize god - the sculpture was apparently a manifestation of mythological beings resulting from the third Maya creation. There were eight mythological beings ...