Unlike the regular Mayan god of death, Cizin, the Mayan god Buluc-Chabtan is known as the God of Sudden Death, and is also ...

It’s an apropos description of the cave former purpose, as a depository of fragments of human remains sacrificed by the Maya ...

A blood cave in Guatemala has found to be home to scattered remains of human sacrifices rituals. With hundreds of humans ...

Bleuze and Franco hypothesize that the rituals were conducted to appease the Mayan rain god Chaac ... and health at the time of death. “Right now, our focus is who are these people [sic ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual ...

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 ...

The study, which weakens theories that attribute the death of this ... to reach the Corn God, the Mayas' principal divinity. The beauty of landscapes along the "Maya Route" is for the Guatemalan ...

The bones weren’t buried and that the injuries occurred around the time of death, leading those studying ... people to caves to plead with the Maya rain god for enough rain to supply a bountiful ...

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 ...