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This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh.
Itzamná (Mayan pronunciation: [it͡samˈna]) is, in Maya mythology, an upper god and creator deity thought to reside in the sky. Itzamná is one of the most important gods in the Classic and Postclassic Maya pantheon. [1] Although little is known about him, scattered references are present in early-colonial Spanish reports (relaciones) and ...
The Sacred Book of the Maya. 2 volumes. Winchester/New York: O Books. Coe, Michael D. (1973), The Maya Scribe and His World. New York: The Grolier Club. Coe, Michael D. (1977), Supernatural Patrons of Maya Scribes and Artists. In N. Hammond ed., Social Process in Maya Prehistory, pp. 327–347. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
The lords of the night are known in both the Aztec and Maya calendar, although the specific names of the Maya Night Lords are unknown. [2] The glyphs corresponding to the night gods are known and Mayanists identify them with labels G1 to G9, the G series. Generally, these glyphs are frequently used with a fixed glyph coined F.
Mayan (or Mayan EDMS) is a web-based free/libre document management system for managing documents within an organization. [ 4 ] All functionality is available in its free public version. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It has an active community of volunteers [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and third-party service and support providers.
Huracán [1] (/ ˈ h ʊ r ə k ə n, ˈ h ʊ r ə k ɑː n /; Spanish: Huracán; Mayan languages: Hunraqan, "one legged"), often referred to as U Kʼux Kaj, the "Heart of Sky", [2] is a Kʼicheʼ Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity. [3]
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The Temple of the Descending God is located in Tulum. The bees used by the Maya are Melipona beecheii and Melipona yucatanica, species of stingless bee. Ah Muzen Cab is a Melipona bee. [1] The deity is the creator of the Earth and Universe in the fourth and final cycle of the cosmos, according to Maya peoples in the Yucatán Peninsula.