Carl Brenner discusses the presence of a Maize god among the Maya.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Carl Brenner Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Carl Brenner, Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004), [4]
- Scribe/Publisher
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- People
- Carl Brenner
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
MAIZE GOD
No god was more important to the Maya than the maize god, the god of corn. Always handsome and young, he danced when the breeze rustled his long leaves. Corn’s cycle of planting, growth, harvesting, and replanting is the cycle of life itself—birth, death, rebirth.
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