Evidence indicates that royals would sometimes wear face masks representing the gods during these ceremonies. At other times, the Maya would take a more direct approach to their requests. One scholar ...

Huracán was once a god of the K'iche,' one of the Maya peoples who today live in the southern highlands of Guatemala. He was one of the main characters of the Popol Vuh , a religious text from ...

Now, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has revealed that the ancient face was part of a 1,300-year-old stucco head depicting a young Hun Hunahpu, the Maya’s maize god.

As its name implies, the Maya would regularly sacrifice valuable objects and the occasional human by tossing them into the sinkhole to appease the Maya rain god, Chaac. (If the 89-foot (27-meter ...

Rain reveals that Mexican pyramids could have been built to be musical instruments for the gods. ... Mayans 'played' pyramids to make music for rain god. By Linda Geddes. 16 September 2009 ...

Officials found rare sculpture of the Mayan God of Lightning, K’awiil, near the path of a large-scale train construction project in Mexico.

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA The ancient ...

Scribes wrote about him as a kind of energy – as a god with “many faces,” or even as part of a triad similar to Huracán. He was everywhere in ancient Maya art. But he was also never the focus.