![]() As for the rain god, who the ancient Maya liked to draw wearing eyeballs around his neck in the scene, there are two possibilities. It looks like the death god or spirit has thrown the Baby Jaguar to the mountain. ![]() The basic scene has all these beings be outside, and the time is between sunset and sunrise. The second god is either a death god or the death god - and one source (a 2015 dissertation by Penny Janice Steinbach) calls this being a death spirit. One god is either a rain god, the rain god, Chaak, or a version of Chaak called First Rain Chaak. As for the gods, they are described somewhat differently, depending on the source. The Scene(s) The basic idea of the scene has two gods, the Baby Jaguar, a witz (a living mountain,) and water moving around on the ground. Project Gutenberg: "An Introduction to the Study of Maya Hieroglyphs" Sylvanus Griswold Morley 1915 Pixabay: Hass Avocado, Avocados, Fruit, Food ![]() Mesoweb: Palenque Resources: Rulers: "The Rulers of Palenque" fifth edition Joel Skidmore 2010 Mesoweb: Palenque Resources: Rulers: Genealogy of Rulers at Palenque University of California, San Diego: “Archaeological Settlement Patterns in the Kingdom of the Avocado” Beniamino P. University of Nebraska - Lincoln of Nebraska - Lincoln: "Nebraska Anthropologist": "Domestication and Significance of Persea americana,the Avocado, in Mesoamerica" Amanda J. ResearchGate: "Phyton" volume 29: "West Indian Avocado: Where Did It Originate?" María Elena Galindo, Amaury martín Arzate December 2010 Google Books: "Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica" Walter R.T. Google Books: "The Maya and their Central American Neighbors: Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts, and Ceramics" Geoffrey E. In English, you may see Pusilhá called the Kingdom of the Avocado. The name for this city-state - or perhaps Pusilhá, one of its capitals - included the glyph for avocado as its main part. In what is now Belize, a city-state seems to have been connected very strongly with the avocado. The ancient Maya also had sacred groves, and they saw avocado trees as a worthy species to have in them. Ix or Lady Yohl Ik'nal's (known by other names such as Lady K'anal-Ik'al and Lady Olnal) image is associated with an avocado tree. One place you can see the avocado tree in connection to a reborn ancestor is the sarcophagus of Pakal the Great (known by other names including Pacal.) Images of certain relatives of his were put on the sarcophagus, each one drawn near a fruit tree. However, for this to happen, you had to have been important. There was a belief among the ancient Maya that people who had died could come back as fruit trees - and one such tree was the avocado.
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