the Mayan god Buluc-Chabtan is known as the God of Sudden Death, and is also associated with gambling. He was often depicted setting fire to villages and roasting people in his path, creating a ...

Today, artworks depicting roughly 250 different Mayan gods and goddesses can still be ... great storms and floods and gifted ...

Originally this statue would have sat with many other similar gods high up on a stepped pyramid-style temple in western Honduras. He was found in Copán, a major Mayan city and religious centre ...