Fig. 1: Tonsured Maize God depiction as a patron of the scribal arts, Classic period.
Like other Mesoamerican peoples, the traditional Maya recognize in their staple crop, maize, a vital force with which they strongly identify. This is clearly shown by their mythological traditions. According to the 16th-century Popol Vuh, the Hero Twins have maize plants for alter egos and man himself is created from maize. The discovery and opening of the Maize Mountain – the place where the corn seeds are hidden – is still one of the most popular of Maya tales. In the Classic period (200-900 AD), the maize deity shows aspects of a culture hero.
Like other Mesoamerican peoples, the traditional Maya recognize in their staple crop, maize, a vital force with which they strongly identify. This is clearly...
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...
god (Chaac), the lightning god (Bolon Dzacab), the aged deities of the underground, terrestrial water, and thunder (Bacabs), the Mayamaizegod (God E)...
Goddess, the Twins, the Mayamaizegod, and the aged god L. In some cases, the Moon Goddess is fused with the main Mayamaizegod, making it uncertain whether...
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....
Peru Stucco head of the Mayamaizegod from Campeche, Mexico, 550–850 AD Jaina Island ceramic statuette of the young Mayamaizegod emerging from an ear...
blowguns may represent the defeat of Vucub-Caquix, whereas the principal Mayamaizegod rising from the carapace of a turtle in the presence of the Hero Twins...
spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk [t͡ʃaːhk]) is the name of the Mayagod of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes...
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...
specifically identified with the young maizegod, whose gift of maize was the basis of Mesoamerican civilization. Maya royal succession was patrilineal, and...
300-Year-Old Corn God Statue Shows How the Maya Worshipped Maize". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-10. "Sculpted head of Mayan maizegod uncovered in...
captive ruler in a ritual reenactment of the decapitation of the Mayamaizegod by the Maya death gods. In AD 738, the vassal king Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat...
the Mayamaizegod (god E of the codices), which has become a popular and still existing misconception. In ethnographic reality, Yum Kaax is a god of wild...
medicine Mayamaizegod, gods of maize Maximón, a Mayan god and modern folk saint associated with crops, death, and fertility and Sight Chaquén, god of sports...
especially the writers among them, and included a Mayamaizegod and the Howler Monkey Gods. The Howler Monkey God also personified the day sign, suggesting that...
human face of the young maize-god, further suggesting a connection to fertility and vegetational renewal; the Maya Young Maizegod was also connected to...
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...
Scribes held a prominent position in Maya courts and had their own patron deities (see Howler monkey gods and Mayamaizegod). They often came from aristocratic...
San Bartolo, murals dating from 100 BCE relate to the myths of the Mayamaizegod and the hero twin Hunahpu, and depict a double inthronization; antedating...
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 Maizegod. In...
the Tonsured MaizeGod has a jaguar headdress and is connected to Night, like the Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire. (The other Paddler God is an aged form...
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...
professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured MaizeGod and the Howler Monkey Gods. The codices have been named for the cities...
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