The Mayan Rain God Chahk Ceramics

Chaak the ancient maya rain god wields a large axe marked with the hieroglyphic symbol for shiny objects in his left hand and an animate stone object in the shape of a skull in his right 7th 8th century.

The mayan rain god chahk ceramics.

The 155 ceramic braziers and incense burners found by the experts bear the likeness of tlaloc the rain god of central mexico. And referred to in scholarly texts as god b is the name of the rain god in the maya religion. The best example of this scene is known from a vase in the museum s collection 1978 412 206. Very important for harvests and growing chac sends rain into the world by weeping from his large benevolent eyes.

His hair is a permanently knotted tangle of confusion which we find quite endearing. The maya also had their own rain god chaac and may have imported. The rain deity is a patron of agriculture. These two structures a platform teetering on the edge of a 60 meter deep pool and a sweatbath compound were part of a ritual pilgrimage circuit traversed by the ancient maya to pay tribute to the rain god chahk during the extended droughts.

One group in particular shows the maya rain god known as chac interacting with a death god and a baby jaguar. Chaac spelled variously chac chaak or chaakh. B is for bursting clouds. During these trying times pilgrims visited both buildings to honor the rain god chahk.

At cara blanca rests the remains of two structures a platform near a deep pool and a sweatbath complex. Chac is a reptilian critter with fangs and a rather droopy snout. Karl taube 3 points out that the god chahk is already present at the beginning of the classic mayan religion 3 17 and stone and zender consider that its. Chahk the god of rain and lightning was one of the most venerated and popular gods for the maya believed to see in him the cause of the rains hence the water essential for the crops.

Rain gods or rain related deities were worshiped beginning in very ancient times and. He s very good like that even teaching the. As with many mesoamerican cultures that based their living on rain dependent agriculture the ancient maya felt a particular devotion for the deities controlling rain. The young rain god named chahk poses mid stride lifting off his left foot and extending the right leg in front of him gracefully pointing his toes.

He s also one of the alphabet gods known as god b. A well known myth in which the chaacs or related rain and lightning deities have an. Both were built around ad 800 900 when the region was choked by droughts.