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Mayan deities

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place in Mayan cosmology

  • Mesoamerican civilization
    In pre-Columbian civilizations: Cosmology

    Thirteen gods, the Oxlahuntiku, presided over the heavens; nine gods, the Bolontiku, ruled the subterranean worlds. These concepts are closely akin to those of the Postclassic Aztec, but archaeological evidence, such as the nine deities sculptured on the walls of a 7th-century crypt at Palenque, shows that they…

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