The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you ...

arts entertainment Visual Arts. Life and death with the Maya gods at Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum The exhibition uses stone sculptures and painted ceramic vessels to retell stories of the gods.

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA The ancient ...

This exhibition depicts episodes in the life cycle of Mayan gods, from the moment of their birth to resplendent transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. Created by ...

Maya mythology is rich and complex — to date, its cast of divine protagonists, as represented through dense iconography, has not been the focus of an exhibition.

These gods had to be pleased so Maya communities made regular offerings to them, in the form of animal (and sometimes human) sacrifices. The Maya worshipped family members who had died.

Ancient Maya Gods Get a Comeback at the Met Throne back, Usumacinta River area, Guatemala or Mexico, 600–909, limestone, W. 66 ½ in. (169 cm.). (Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.) ...

Maya Gods Descend on Manhattan. Centuries after the conquistadores, immortal kings and gods are reincarnated, so to speak, at the Met. ‘Monument 155,’ Yax Ahk as a captive impersonating the jaguar ...

The upper half of a stone stela (an upright slab) created in 731 A. D. in Mexico. It dominates the entrance to the Kimbell show, "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art." ...

The ancient Maya god K’awiil, left, had an ax or torch in his forehead as well as a snake in place of his right leg. K5164 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard ...