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Running time. 103 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Take Care of Maya is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Henry Roosevelt. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10, 2023, and was released on Netflix on June 19, 2023.
The Maya were ritualistic people, who paid great respect to the destructive nature of their gods. They had many traditions to commemorate the recently deceased and worship long-departed ancestors. People who died by suicide, sacrifice, complications of childbirth, perish in the ball game, [1] and in battle were thought to be transported ...
v. t. e. Cizin is a Maya god of death and earthquakes. [1] He is the most important Maya death god in the Maya culture. [6] Scholars call him God A. [7] To the Yucatán Mayas he was Hun-Came and Vucub-Came. [5] [clarification needed] He also has similarities to Mictlāntēcutli. [8]
A date inscription in the Maya Long Count on the east side of Stela C from Quirigua showing the date for the last Creation. It is read as 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Kumku and is usually correlated as 11 or 13 August, 3114 BC on the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. The date of 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 3 Kʼankʼin is usually correlated as 21 or 23 December 2012.
t. e. The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who are respectively represented by the 16th-century Yucatec deities Hunhau and Uacmitun Ahau mentioned by Spanish Bishop Diego de Landa. Hunhau is the lord of the Underworld.
The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 American horror film based on Clive Barker 's 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barker's collection Books of Blood. The film follows a photographer who attempts to track down a serial killer dubbed the "Subway Butcher", and discovers more than he bargained for under the city ...
Ixtab. Image from the Dresden Codex which may be a depiction of Ixtab. At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ( [iʃˈtaɓ]; "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to heaven.
The Maya (/ ˈmaɪə /) are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people who lived within that historical region. Today they inhabit southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and westernmost El Salvador and Honduras.