Explore Mythology of the Mayas
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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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Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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EpicenterxEpicenter : The epicenter is the point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter (or focus), point in the crust where a seismic rupture begins.
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Research Highlights
Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. The Community Earth System...
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