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  2. Acat (deity) - Wikipedia

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    Acat was first mentioned by J. Eric S. Thompson, in his book "Tattooing and Scarification among the Maya." (Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Historical Research, June 18th, 1946.) Thompson also added that Acat is a Nahuatl day name meaning "reed", while the pronunciation "Ah Cat" would be "He of the Storage Jar."

  3. List of Maya gods and supernatural beings - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Maya mythology - Wikipedia

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    Mayan or Maya mythology is part in of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles. The legends of the era have to be reconstructed from iconography. Other parts of Mayan oral tradition (such as animal tales, folk tales, and ...

  5. Camazotz - Wikipedia

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    In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz (/ k ɑː m ə ˈ s ɒ t s / from Mayan /kama ˈsots’/) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language.

  6. Maya religion - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Codex contains what some consider to be a zodiac. [70] In the Classic period, references to specific stars are not rare; in dynastic texts, a star glyph with rain symbols seems to signal a decisive war ("star war"). Some of the Books of Chilam Balam testify to the great interest the colonial Maya had for the astrology of their conquerors.

  7. Ixchel - Wikipedia

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    In the 1500s, Diego de Landa called Ixchel “the Goddess of making children”. [2] He also mentioned her as the goddess of medicine, as shown by the following. In the month of Zip, the feast Ihcil Ixchel was celebrated by the physicians and shamans (hechiceros), and divination stones as well as medicine bundles containing little idols of "the Goddess of medicine whom they called Ixchel" were ...

  8. Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan ...

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    The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span

  9. Mayanism - Wikipedia

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    The supposed prediction of an astronomical conjunction of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy with the winter solstice Sun on December 21, 2012, referred to by Jenkins in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date (1998) [21] and Galactic Alignment:The Transformation of Consciousness According to ...