Sentences with phrase «maya rain god»
It just started pouring again and I immediately started my prayers to Maya rain God Chac — «Please let the sky clear enough for Bandage International and the documentary camera crew at 8:30 am to get their equipment to Maya Air dry.»
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She and Andrew Kinkella of California's Moorpark College explored the cenote and found that more offerings to Chaak, the Maya rain god, were placed in the shrine after a widespread drought hit the Maya region.
It was Chac, the Maya rain god.
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Ancient Maya may have traveled deep into these caves to conduct ritualistic sacrifices to Chac, the god of rain.
Along with Chac (rain god) and Yum Kax (corn god), Kinich Ahau was among the most important deities in the Maya pantheon.
Ancient Maya may have traveled deep into these caves to conduct ritualistic sacrifices to Chac, the god of rain.
Within its dark recesses you will discover large clay jars, left long ago by the Maya people, in hopes that the gods of rain and fertility would find them suitable offerings.
Lu - zo After visiting the caves of Lanquin, a site sacred to the Mayans they believed was inhabited by the Chacs, the gods of rain, nawal - ws of the four directions and the four colors of the Maya worldview: red, black, white and yellow.
The pendant was probably a desperate sacrifice to the god of wind and rain in a time when climate change and civil unrest led to the collapse of Maya civilization and the abandonment of cities like Nim Li Punit.
From an archaeological perspective, Tulum is significant because of its status as a hub of trade and commerce in the Riviera Maya dating back to 1200 A.D. Structures of note include the often - photographed El Castillo, which is magnificently perched on a seaside cliff, the Temple of the Wind, whose rounded corners allowed the wind to flow freely around it as a sort of tribute to that god, and the Temple of the Frescoes, which shows different scenes of gods including Chaac, the ever - powerful rain god.
The ATM Cave was used as a sacred place during the Classic period (AD 250 - 909) by the ancient Maya who believed that the Gods who provided rain and agricultural fertility resided in this cave.