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

These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods, their sacred city ... cosmos—the shaft of sunlight danced like fire on the delicate frillery of surrounding ...

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 ...