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"So many around us are suffering and we could do so much to help, if only we could listen to Jesus," writes Rev..
Cozumel may not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about Mayan ruins. But it turns out there are actually a few archaeological sites on the island. San Gervasio is the biggest and ...
Catholic worshippers 'concerned' over Pope Francis' health. Worshippers from all over the world have come to the Vatican to pay their respects to Pope Francis, who remains in critical condition.
The recent discovery of a new Mayan temple in Guatemala has uncovered a possible connection between the king and the sun god. The Temple of the Night Sun in the smaller Mayan kingdom of El Zotz was ...
I called in on the beekeeper, who keeps 10 hives of Melipona bees, the small stingless variety that the ancient Mayans had kept; one of the Mayan gods, Ah-Muzen-Cab, had been a beekeeper.
Because of this, the ancient Maya carved and painted many images of K'awiil. Scribes wrote about him as a kind of energy – as a god with “many faces,” or even as part of a triad similar to ...
The ancient Maya god K’awiil, left, had an ax or torch in his forehead as well as a snake in place of his right leg. K5164 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard ...
Helios – Greek god of the Sun and a son of Titans Huitzilopochtli – Aztec god of the Sun and war Inti – Incan god of the Sun and patron deity of the Incan empire Kinich Ahau – Mayan god of the Sun ...
Credit: X/Twitter Why Indigenous groups in Mexico are against the Poseidon statue However, it was symbolically “closed” Thursday—and could be removed altogether—after a group of activist lawyers filed ...
The gods must be angry — or just laughing at the hubris of humanity. Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 10-foot-tall (3-meter) aquatic statue of the Greek god of the ...
Mexican authorities “closed" a statue of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, that was erected in the Gulf of Mexico just off the town of Progreso, Yucatan, following legal complaints.
The urn features an anthropomorphic figure that appears to depict a pre-Hispanic god of corn in his representation as a growing cob. The INAH experts say that similar images of this Maya deity ...