Maya mythology: Facts

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the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural form based on the Maya creation myth?

Facts on topics related to Maya mythology

human sacrifices to the K'iche' Maya patron deity Tohil had their severed heads placed on a rack in front of the temple?
Calakmul (pictured) was one of the largest and most powerful Maya cities?
Chiquibul National Park surrounds the ancient Mayan site of Caracol?
Chitinamit in Guatemala was the first capital of the highland K'iche' Maya?
Gukumatz (depiction pictured), one of the Feathered Serpent deities of the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala, was said to carry the sun across the sky in his jaws?
Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals?
Jaina Island, a Maya necropolis, contains over 20,000 burials, with every one excavated having one or more ceramic figurines (example pictured)?
La Amelia, a small Maya archaeological site in Guatemala, features hieroglyphic panels describing the ritual sacrifice of a bound captive who is rolled into a ball and thrown to his death?
potbelly sculpture is a crude non-Maya sculptural style distributed along the Pacific slope of southern Mesoamerica and dating to the Preclassic Period?
Temple I (pictured), in the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, is a 47-metre (154 ft) high funerary monument dedicated to king Jasaw Chan K'awiil I who died in AD 734?

the hieroglyphic inscriptions at the Early Classic Maya city of Bejucal in northern Guatemala were all made within a narrow 40 year period?

the Classic period Maya city of Punta de Chimino was one of the last cities to survive the political collapse of the Petexbatún region of Guatemala?

human sacrifices to the K'iche' Maya patron deity Tohil had their severed heads placed on a rack in front of the temple?

the Chontal Maya of Tabasco, Mexico consider themselves the direct descendents of the Olmec civilization?