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 Mayans believed their gods to be immortal, and if “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art” is any indication, that faith was well founded. The show, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until the ...

Some of the best evidence for this comes from the behavior of two of the most powerful beings of the Maya world: The first is a creator god whose name is still spoken by millions of people every ...

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INAH By observing the depth and manner of burial, archaeologists have determined that the burials were likely offerings linked to a Mayan deity as a means of consecrating the temple, according to ...

An ancient Mayan idol, referred to as a deity of death, was recently discovered in Mexico, officials said. Photo from Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia An ancient idol depicting a ...

While Tenoch Huerta’s character is mainly credited as Namor, he is also called another name by his soldiers and the local Yucatán people: Kukulkan, the feathered serpent god from Mayan mythology.