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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...