His Maya sun god power over the people’s success plays ... This allows her to stand out as an important symbol of life and ...

In the Maya's belief system, sunsets were associated with death and decay. Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew ...

This nocturnal, blood-drinking Sun God sinks into the ‘fiery pool ... Beneath 1500-year-old Maya symbols lurked a scientific reality that eluded the Europeans. Perhaps xook-like sea monsters ...

A rendering (top) of one of the masks representing the Maya sun god found at El Zotz’s Temple of the Night Sun in Guatemala shows places where crimson pigment remains. The five-foottall stucco ...

Twice a year, during the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sun casts a ... Kukulkan's (a Plumed Serpent God, associated with the wind in Mayan Culture) descent to earth, a powerful symbol of ...

In the Maya’s belief system, sunsets were associated with death and decay. Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew ...

A 1,600 year old temple believed to be dedicated to the sun god of the ancient Mayan people has been found in El Zotz, Guatemala. The Temple of the Night Sun dates back to between 350 and 400 AD.

The Mayans believed their gods to be immortal, and if “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art” is any indication ... A caption names the place and time: K’inchil, or “Great Sun Place,” on August 11, ...