Explore Mythology of the Mayas
The Maya believed the Earth was flat with four corners. Each corner represented a cardinal ...
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Xib Chac was the Mayan rain god. He was a benevolent god, and was represented by many colors. ...
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Ix Chel, the "Lady Rainbow," was the old Moon goddess in Mayan mythology. The Maya people lived ...
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The ancient Mayans used the doorways and windows of their buildings as astronomical sightings, ...
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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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Did you know that
solar activity follows an 11-year
solar cycle?
Did
you know that the magnetic
field of the Sun flips its orientation every
11 years?
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Sand boilxSand boil : A sand boil is sand and water that come out onto the ground surface during an earthquake as a result of liquefaction at shallow depth.
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Research Highlights
There used to be sea ice floating on the tropical ocean, according to new evidence found by geologists. This was quite a long time ago, 716.5 million years ago, during a time known as Snowball Earth. This...
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