Like other Mesoamerican peoples, the traditional Maya recognize in their staple crop, maize, a vital force with which they strongly identify. This is clearly...
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casts an antlered maize deity ('Maize-Deer God') in the role of the presumed abductor. Much is still speculative here. List of Maya gods and supernatural...
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Goddess, the Twins, the Maya maize god, and the aged god L. In some cases, the Moon Goddess is fused with the main Maya maize god, making it uncertain whether...
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god (Chaac), the lightning god (Bolon Dzacab), the aged deities of the underground, terrestrial water, and thunder (Bacabs), the Maya maize god (God E)...
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and Quiriguá in the southern Maya area. God of the woods, of wild nature, and of the hunt; invoked before carving out a maize field from the wilderness....
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post-classic depictions of the 'foliated' Maya maize god. According to sources, Cinteotl is the god of maize and subsistence and Centeotl corresponds to...
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Mountain); several persons are walking and kneeling on a large serpent. The Maya maize god is shown in the midst of a group of men and women, while receiving (or...
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Peru Stucco head of the Maya maize god from Campeche, Mexico, 550–850 AD Jaina Island ceramic statuette of the young Maya maize god emerging from an ear...
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concentrated upon several core foods, the most important of which was maize. Much of the ancient Maya food supply was grown in agricultural fields and forest gardens...
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Hun Hunahpu (category Maya mythology and religion)
Hunahpu with the Classic Maya Maize Deity has become popular, objections remain. Thus, the hieroglyphic name of the Tonsured Maize God is different from the...
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captive ruler in a ritual reenactment of the decapitation of the Maya maize god by the Maya death gods. In AD 738, the vassal king Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat...
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blowguns may represent the defeat of Vucub-Caquix, whereas the principal Maya maize god rising from the carapace of a turtle in the presence of the Hero Twins...
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specifically identified with the young maize god, whose gift of maize was the basis of Mesoamerican civilization. Maya royal succession was patrilineal, and...
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List of fertility deities (redirect from Fertility god)
medicine Maya maize god, gods of maize Maximón, a Mayan god and modern folk saint associated with crops, death, and fertility and Sight Chaquén, god of sports...
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Scribes held a prominent position in Maya courts and had their own patron deities (see Howler monkey gods and Maya maize god). They often came from aristocratic...
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human face of the young maize-god, further suggesting a connection to fertility and vegetational renewal; the Maya Young Maize god was also connected to...
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season was generally referred to as Cinteotl. Centeōtl (Aztec god of maize) Maya maize god Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel (2006). Handbook to Life in the Aztec...
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List of agricultural deities (redirect from Agricultural god)
of one or more specialties within the field. Each god's culture or religion of origin is listed; a god revered in multiple contexts are listed with the...
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as a death god. Ah Puch, though often mentioned in books about the Mayas, does not appear to be an authentic Maya name for the death god. (An Ah Puch...
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San Bartolo, murals dating from 100 BCE relate to the myths of the Maya maize god and the hero twin Hunahpu, and depict a double inthronization; antedating...
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maize deity, a culture hero with counterparts among most other cultures of the Gulf Coast and possibly also represented by the Classic Maya maize god...
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the Tonsured Maize God has a jaguar headdress and is connected to Night, like the Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire. (The other Paddler God is an aged form...
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professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured Maize God and the Howler Monkey Gods. The codices have been named for the cities...
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this god. In the Popol Vuh that the Kʼicheʼ Maya wrote, one of the few surviving codices, it tells the story of the reincarnation of the Maize god. In...
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Rich, ancient Maya associated cinnabar coated caches, containing offerings, with resurrecting rulers, more specifically the maize god. A trefoil sprout...
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especially the writers among them, and included a Maya maize god and the Howler Monkey Gods. The Howler Monkey God also personified the day sign, suggesting that...
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List of culture heroes (section Maya mythology)
Watanabe no Tsuna Watatsumi Yamato Takeru Iktomi Gukumatz Kukulkan Maya Hero Twins Maya maize god Enkidu Gilgamesh Ziusudra Bochica Changing Woman The Diyin Dine...
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