In Maya, Kukulkan means “feathered serpent god,” and this god ... in the Tulum Ruins Archeological Site. A statue of the ...

This ancient Maya metropolis is renowned for its architecture, intricate mythology and reverence for Kukulkan, the feathered serpent god. A "vision serpent" in Maya culture, Kukulkan represented an ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Maya maize god (made around 1,300 years ago). Stone statue, found in Honduras ... modellers - and a sovereign plumed serpent - they sought and ...

And this is pretty obvious in the young maize god - the sculpture was apparently a manifestation of mythological beings resulting from the third Maya creation. There were eight mythological beings ...

The statue is of the Mayan maize god. He was found in a pyramid-style temple in Copan in modern-day Honduras surrounded by many other maize gods. In Mayan mythology, the maize god was decapitated ...

The sculpture was intended to depict a beheaded figure, echoing other Maya art depicting various headless gods. Maize, or corn, was not only an important source of food for the Maya—it also ...