For many people in the Western world, Maya culture has been reduced to sacrificial rituals, disfigurement, bloodletting and other dark depictions of an ancient Mesoamerican civilization ... the rain ...

Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early as the fifth century A.D. but was apparently abandoned thereafter. Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain ...

Tikal's Origins Tikal is in an area of Central America that has numerous other Maya remains ... stoles [a long shawl] and an elaborate Sun God bonnet, her image now badly eroded and worm-eaten ...

Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head priest ... K’inich Ahau is our Sun god and Chaac brings us rain. The Maize god provides some ...

Did they believe this was a place where the sun and the generous waters met and brought forth life? These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods, their sacred ...

Hoopes criticizes Wakanda Forever’s blending of elements from different Mesoamerican cultures—for instance, the Aztec paradise Tlālōcān and the Maya serpent god Ku’ku’lkán.