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Apocalypto (/ ə ˌ p ɒ k ə ˈ l ɪ p t oʊ /) is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia.The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez ...
Going to a general casting call, Youngblood was selected by the director Mel Gibson to play the leading role of Jaguar Paw in the epic film Apocalypto (2006), in which he also performed his own stunts. [3] He learned the Yucatec Maya language in order to appear as a tribesman in the film, in which all dialogue was in Maya. [3]
Chak Tok Ichʼaak I [N 1] also known as Great Paw, Great Jaguar Paw, and Toh Chak Ichʼak (died 14 January 378) was an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal. He took the throne on 7 August 360 and reigned until his death in 378, apparently at the hands of invaders from central Mexico.
The fourteenth king of Tikal was Chak Tok Ichʼaak (Great Jaguar Paw). [29] Chak Tok Ichʼaak built a palace that was preserved and developed by later rulers until it became the core of the Central Acropolis. [36] Little is known about Chak Tok Ichʼaak except that he was killed on 14 January 378 AD.
The text of stela 30 describes the contact of El Perú's king Mah-Kina-Balam and his wife to the king Jaguar-Paw, of Calakmul. The stela says they participated, along with other kings from western kingdoms, in the ritual of accession for Jaguar-Paw. One of these kings may have included Flint-Sky-God K of Dos Pilas, well known for his many captives.
Chak Tok Ichʼaak II, [N 1] also known as Jaguar Paw II and Jaguar Paw Skull (died 24 July 508), was an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal. He took the throne c. 486 and reigned until his death. [ N 2 ] He was son of Kʼan Chitam and Lady Tzutz Nik, daughter of Tzik'in Bahlam, ruler of Naranjo . [ 1 ]
In the 1500s, Diego de Landa called Ixchel “the Goddess of making children”. [2] He also mentioned her as the goddess of medicine, as shown by the following. In the month of Zip, the feast Ihcil Ixchel was celebrated by the physicians and shamans (hechiceros), and divination stones as well as medicine bundles containing little idols of "the Goddess of medicine whom they called Ixchel" were ...
The ancient name for these type of sculptures is unknown. The term chacmool is derived from the name "Chaacmol," which Augustus Le Plongeon in 1875 gave to a sculpture that he and his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon excavated within the Temple of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chichén Itzá in 1875; he translated Chaacmol from Yucatecan Mayan as the "paw swift like thunder."