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A feathered snake god and creator. The depiction of the feathered serpent deity is present in other cultures of Mesoamerica. Gukumatz of the Kʼicheʼ Maya is closely related to the god Kukulkan of Yucatán and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztec. God of the seas, oceans, wind, and storms.
The term 'theatre state' , originally coined for the Hindu kingdoms of Bali, could also be used for describing the Classic Maya kingdoms; it suggests the cohesion of the state to be dependent on elaborate royal rituals through which status differences between aristocratic families could find expression.
In the vertical axis; the world on the surface of Earth, in the middle; a world above where the stars are, and then a world below our surface. These three worlds are not to be confused with the Christian division of a heaven and a hell, although the Spaniards, in trying to convert the native Mesoamerican, made the two comparable by doing so. [1]
Sorimana (A.k.a. Solimana) was a pre-inca god of volcanoes and earthquakes. Solimana also shares the name of a volcano located in Arequipa, Peru. Supay was both the god of death and ruler of the Uku Pacha as well as a race of demons. Supay was also the personification of all evilness.
The World View of a Tzotzil Indian. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe. Hopkins, Nicholas A., and J. Kathryn Josserand (2016), Chol (Mayan) Folktales. Boulder: UP of Colorado. Knowlton, Timothy (2010), Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
Among the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Kukulkan is an evil, monstrous snake that is the pet of the sun god. She destroys much of the world until she tries to herself during the long trip—the trip between the life and death. During the trip, she meets a boy who shares food with her and follows her back to the human world.
The Maya’s god of lightning has been seen by experts before, but rarely like this. Rare sculpture of Mayan god found in path of train construction, Mexican officials say Skip to main content
The Maya world was populated by a great variety of deities, supernatural entities and sacred forces. The Maya had such a broad interpretation of the sacred that identifying distinct deities with specific functions is inaccurate. [354] The Maya interpretation of deities was closely tied to the calendar, astronomy, and their cosmology. [355]