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Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ (Mayan pronunciation: [jaʃ kʼukʼ moʔ] "Great Sun, Quetzal Macaw the First", ruled 426 – c. 437) is named in Maya inscriptions as the founder and first ruler, kʼul ajaw (also rendered kʼul ahau and kʼul ahaw - meaning holy lord), of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization polity centered at Copán, a major Maya site located in the southeastern Maya lowlands region ...
Temple of Inscriptions. The Temple of the Inscriptions (Classic Maya: Bʼolon Yej Teʼ Naah (Mayan pronunciation: [ɓolon jex teʔ naːh]) "House of the Nine Sharpened Spears" [1]) is the largest Mesoamerican stepped pyramid structure at the pre-Columbian Maya civilization site of Palenque, located in the modern-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Kinich Ahau (Mayan: [kʼiː.nitʃ a'haw]) is the 16th-century Yucatec name of the Maya sun god, designated as God G when referring to the codices. In the Classic period, God G is depicted as a middle-aged man with an aquiline nose, large square eyes, cross-eyed, and a filed incisor in the upper row of teeth.
Mask of Kinich Ahau in Temple VI. On the same spur, immediately east of Temple VII and also facing north, is Temple VI, or Andrews' Temple. During the first constructive stage identified at Comalcalco, the upper structure had mud walls. Later, it was replaced by two rectangular rooms made of bricks.
Kinich Kakmó Pyramid Maya: 34 400 to 600 CE La Venta. Mexico The Great Pyramid Olmec: 33 394 ± 30 BCE This is one of the earliest pyramids known in Mesoamerica. It was made out of an estimated 100,000 cubic meters of earth fill. Mayapan. Mexico Maya: 15 Moral-Reforma. Mexico Conjunto 14 Maya: 37 Palenque. Mexico Temple of the Cross: Maya ...
Kʼahkʼ Ujol Kʼinich I [pronunciation?] ("Fire-headed Sun God" [1]) was a king of Maya city of Caracol in Belize, [2] named after the Sun deity called Kinich Ahau.He is also known as Ruler I and Smoking Skull I.
The gods they worship included Itzam Na, the creator god, Kinich Ahau, the sun god, Ah Puch, a death god, and Buluc Chabtan, the war god. The Maya believed that all things, including inanimate objects, had a soul and could influence the world and believe in an afterlife called Xibalba, where the soul is tormented by underworld gods until it ...
Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I (Mayan pronunciation: [kʼihniʧ χanaːɓ pakal]), also known as Pacal or Pacal the Great (March 24, 603 – August 29, 683), [N 1] was ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology.