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The Earth was conceived by the Maya as flat with four corners. Each corner represented a cardinal ...
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Xib Chac was the rain god according to the Mayan pantheon. The rain god was a benevolent deity, ...
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Ix Chel, the "Lady Rainbow," was the old Moon goddess in Maya mythology. Mayan people lived ...
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Maya astronomers had a remarkably accurate knowledge of the apparent motion of Venus. They ...
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Mayans were sophisticated observers of the sky. Mayans used their astronomical knowledge to ...
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Mayans seem to have thought of the Milky Way as the mystic road along which souls walk into ...
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Sumatra experiences frequent seismic activity because it is located near the boundary of two of Earth's tectonic plates. Earthquakes occur at 'subduction zones,' such as the one west of Indonesia, when...
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