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 ...

Deep in an underground cave in Guatemala, archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of fragmented human bones showing signs of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ancient Mayan civilisation revered hundreds of gods, and their death god went by many names with several different backstories. Inspired by these sweeping tales in Mexican folklore ...

A similar mark on an infant’s hip bone was likely made around the time of death. That the bones were ... were likely intended to appease the Mayan rain god Chaac, but further studies, including ...

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 ...