The recent discovery of a new Mayan temple in Guatemala has uncovered a possible connection between the king and the sun god. The Temple of the Night Sun in the smaller Mayan kingdom of El Zotz was ...

Mayan aztec totems, animal, bird, sun and god Mayan aztec totems, vector animal, bird, sun and god tribal ethnic symbols. Ancient mexican lizard, fish, turtle and crow, star, eagle and native indian ...

Mayan aztec totems, animal, bird, sun and god Mayan aztec totems, vector animal, bird, sun and god tribal ethnic symbols. Ancient mexican lizard, fish, turtle and crow, star, eagle and native indian ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mayans believed their gods ... of the Sun God, of whom he is an avatar. When the Mayans looked to the stars, they saw platoons of celestial armies engaged in astral warfare. “Monument 168,” hewn ...

(Julio /Adobe Stock) She wears a short, latticed bead skirt and her headdress contains maize foliation, merging her with the Maize God and reiterating her fecundity. In Maya folklore, Ix Chel took her ...

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 ...

including various depictions of the Maya sun god as a shark, jaguar, and blood drinker. Archaeologists are hoping that the discovery will shed some light on the fierce rivalries that characterized ...

with giant masks of the Maya sun god. The find was made at the El Zotz site. El Zots was the center of one of the many Mayan kingdoms. While the Inca and Aztec civilizations were centralized under ...