On one side of the sculpture, two serpents intertwine and hold a grotesque figure and a blood-letter (an instrument that allowed one to draw one’s own blood for sacrifice to the gods). Performing ...

In Jorge Gutierrez’s Netflix fantasy epic “Maya and the Three,” audiences ... into the underworld and battle against sinister gods. Drawing influence from Mesoamerican history, art and ...

The Mayan city-states often warred just to get captives to sacrifice to the gods. Other times, families offered up their ... "The looters come in many forms," he said, drawing deeply on a cigarette.

Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that supported millions of people in what is now Mexico and Central America. “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening ...

Stone carvings depict the heads of gods emerging directly from these ... a 7th century queen consort in the ancient Maya city, drawing a barbed rope through her tongue.

dating to the first century A.D. The mask depicts the ruler with the forehead hair decoration of the civilization's maize god, a common portrayal of Mayan culture's deified kings. Other symbolic ...

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 ...

an animal that represented several forms of ancient Maya gods. Catherwood’s highly romanticized illustration is one of the only Western records of the colossal head before it dropped to the ground. It ...