Eric Thompson’s (1939) seminal study concluded that a number of beliefs about the Moon Goddess were ... the most important in Maya art, cosmology, and calendrics. Like the Moon, Venus has multiple ...

The decline of the Maya civilization began some 1,100 year ago when millions of Indians working on the contruction of tall pyramidal temples and palaces learned that their kings weren't gods ...

Maya households buried their dead underneath ... lightning and the rains. There was a moon goddess, and a maize god. Kukulkan was a huge serpent covered in feathers who controlled rain.

(Restaurateur Santiago Calva) Some archaeologists argue that food must always have had a divine role even for our earliest ancestors; just think of the cow goddess ... god made Adam out of dust ...

The ancient Mayan civilisation revered hundreds of gods, and their death god went by many names with several different backstories. Inspired by these sweeping tales in Mexican folklore ...