“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Nov. 21, draws on recent archaeological finds to assemble nearly 100 artworks from the ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience ... are powerful nighttime hunters in the Maya area, and therefore jaguar gods and goddesses all displayed an aggressive, warlike personality.

He then becomes the god Itzamna , the important sky deity, as he leans aggressively toward his wife, or wife-goddess ... For those who think of Mayan art as linear and two-dimensional, these ...

The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you ...

Sections explore Maya creation myths, the solar gods and the gods of night ... including a lunar goddess. “Much of my own research on Maya art and religion builds on Mike’s work,” Chinchilla ...

Goddess Ix Chel is also depicted as "Lady Rainbow" in many of her pictographic appearances in Maya art. The creator god Hunab Ku was a major point of contention in scholarly debates about the Maya ...