Explore Mythology of the Mayas
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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Did you know that the
Phoenix Mars Lander landed on
Mars on 25 May, 2008?
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Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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ChinookxChinook : A dry down-slope wind which occurs on the downwind side of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind which results from the subsequent (adiabatic) warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes.
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Research Highlights
Researchers working in South Africa have discovered two remarkably well-preserved fossil skeletons of an ancient human ancestor dating to almost two million years ago. The discovery is described in two...
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