The powerful deity Kinich Ahau is one of the Mayan Sun Gods — and fun fact, in the Maya language, the word kin means sun ☀️ ...

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 ...

Eclipse panels in the Dresden Codex. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eclipse panels in the Dresden Codex. Saxon State University and Library - Dresden In the Maya’s belief system, sunsets were associated with death and decay. Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, ...

Maya mythology is rich and complex — to date ... “Day” will explore the balance between the gods of the day, such as the Sun God K’inich, and the nocturnal gods like the Jaguar God ...

Millions today speak Mayan languages, even as the Spanish conquest obliterated ... and scholars explain that his serpent-shaped nose ring is meant to convey the fiery breath of the Sun God, of whom he ...

Both temporal phases are fraught with paradox. As depicted in paintings and sculptures, the Maya sun god, giver of life, is no Apollo. He’s a sickly hero beset by violently light-averse enemies.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...