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22 Μαρ 2024 · The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we’re still uncovering today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you visit the Mayan ruins near Tulum.
Working limestone or volcanic tuff with stone tools, sculptors showed realistic portraits of divine lords, courtly ladies, captives, and deities. Maya sculptors also invested a monumental amount of labor in portable goods made of stone.
A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.
31 Μαρ 2016 · Assistant Curator James Doyle highlights a Maya limestone head in The Met collection excavated from Chichen Itza, and examines artistic attributes of the object that aid in identifying which deity it depicts.
Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk [t͡ʃaːhk]) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Aztecs. Chaac sculpture at the Maya Sculpture Museum, Honduras.
Maya artists created monumental sculptures to celebrate historical events and depict the close ties between rulers and the gods. Freestanding slabs known as stelae stood in the large plazas of Maya cities; others were set on buildings as wall panels, lintels, stairways, or other architectural sculptures.
17 Αυγ 2022 · Mayan Statues. The Maya were talented sculptors, especially given their limited and primitive sculpting tools. It is believed that they first began sculpting in the 1st millennium BCE. Mayan statues were created for several decorative, religious, and even practical reasons.
