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This category contains articles associated with legendary creatures and mythic beings from Maya mythology and tradition. Pages in category "Maya legendary creatures" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh.
The project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan (abbr. TWKM) promotes research on the writing and language of pre-Hispanic Maya culture.It is housed in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn and was established with funding from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. [1]
Maya mythology or Mayan mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, ...
A Vision Serpent, detail of Lintel 15 at the Classical Maya site of Yaxchilan. The Vision Serpent is an important creature in Pre-Columbian Maya mythology, although the term itself is now slowly becoming outdated. The serpent was a very important social and religious symbol, revered by the Maya. Maya mythology describes serpents as being the ...
Kukulkan at Chichen Itza during the Equinox. The Classic Maya vision serpent, as depicted at Yaxchilan.. K’uk’ulkan, also spelled Kukulkan (/ k uː k ʊ l ˈ k ɑː n /; lit. "Plumed Serpent", "Amazing Serpent"), is the serpent deity of Maya mythology.
Xolotl was originally the name for lightning beast of the Maya tribe, often taking the form of a dog. [8] The dog plays an important role in Maya manuscripts. He is the lightning beast, who darts from heaven with a torch in his hand. [20]
Sometimes referred to as the "earth monster," Tlaltecuhtli's dismembered body was the basis for the world in the Aztec creation story of the fifth and final cosmos. [5] In carvings, Tlaltecuhtli is often depicted as an anthropomorphic being with splayed arms and legs.