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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Research Highlights
Lake Tanganyika, the second-oldest and second-deepest lake in the world, could be in for some rough waters. Geologists have determined that the East African rift lake has experienced unprecedented warming...
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