In 1968, while archeologists excavated a tomb within the temple, they found a large, full-rounded sculpted head of Kinich Ahau, the sun god. Weighing almost ten pounds, it was the largest Maya ...

The Maya, to calibrate their calendar ... clay flutes like those he found deep inside the cave, praising the sun god for bringing the zenith day around once more, and with it, the rains.

K’inich Ahau is our Sun god and Chaac brings us rain ... get to go straight to the top level. The Maya believed in many gods, each representing a different part of life. These gods had to ...

The moon’s phases formed one basis for the Maya calendar; and in Mesoamerica, the jaguar was one of the most feared yet respected animals, denoting power and authority. Moreover, Kinich Ahua, the sun ...

And this is pretty obvious in the young maize god - the sculpture was apparently a manifestation of mythological beings resulting from the third Maya creation ... before the sun, moon and stars ...