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Yaxche Maya Restaurant Playa del Carmen, MexicoMaya Mythology

The ancient Maya had a large pantheon of gods who controlled all aspects of human existence and the natural and spiritual worlds. Religious ceremonies were performed by Maya priests, but also by regular people from all social groups.

In general, rituals were performed to please the gods and obtain help with hunting, fishing, the harvest, and anything else affecting the community. Most rituals followed the same pattern: fasting or abstinence to purify the body, selection of a favorable day according to the calendar, expulsion of evil spirits from the participants, cleansing of idols and alters with copal incense, and the sacrifice of animals, human beings, ritual objects or blood.restaurant playa del carmen mexico seafood mexican food mayan food maya restaurant


Some gods related to Maya Cuisine

Acanum protective deity of hunters
Ahcit Dzamalcum protective god of fishermen
Ahekkeh black hunter, devoted to hunting, a millenarian god
Ah Itzam water witch
Ah Puah god of fish
Chaac god of water and agriculture, also god of rain and thunder, brought corn to the Maya
Hobnil Bacab the bee god, protector of beekeepers
Hosanek god of corn germination, his headdress is a corn plant sprouting
Itzamana wizard of water, absolute power over sky and earth: life, rain, sun, stars oceans
Ix Chel moon goddess, beehives, fertility - both human and agricultural, also medicine and weaving
Kukulcan feathered serpent man god, discoverer of agriculture, god of the wind
Yum K'aax god of corn, young god with corn silk for hair and a corn plant for a headdress
Zec spirit lord of beehives

Yaxche Maya Restaurant Playa del Carmen, MexicoYum K'aax, the god of corn, was characterized as a passive and defenseless creature, victim of attacks by birds, insects and rodents. His survival depended on the help of the god of rain, Chaac. Corn also depended on man's rituals and offerings to the god of rain, weeding out plants which competed with Corn for space, scaring of predators, and giving life to the god by planting him. In gratitude for all man's care, Corn fed him.

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