Art images and companion texts provide keys to understanding the thought processes of the ancient Maya. Rather than focusing on scientific ... appearing not as gods themselves, but as their cigars.
Chaac or Chaak was an important figure in the Mayan pantheon as the Rain God 🌧️ He was often depicted as a human/jaguar hybrid. However, at the Tollan Ruins of Tula de Allende, Mexico ...
Catherwood carefully depicts the moon looking over the scene, as the colossal head of a Maya figure gapes at the intruders hunting a jaguar, an animal that represented several forms of ancient Maya ...