Today, artworks depicting roughly 250 different Mayan gods and goddesses can still be found carved into these wonders. Not ...

The reliefs were made with artistic precision that demonstrates the high level of Mayan civilization and were created using a ...

Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head priest and he can speak directly to the gods. With the help of other high-ranking priests ...

the symbols of these deities came to represent numbers. No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without being able to read the 19 numbers that form the base of their numbering system.

As personified lightning, he was believed to create portals to other worlds, through which ancestors and gods might travel.