Bacab
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Bacab is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the Earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old
Throne support from Palenque showing a young, named official acting as a bacab (Museum of the Americas, Madrid, Spain).
Chaac
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Chaac is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Azt
Bacab
…four New Year days), as follows: The Bacabs were invoked in connection with rain and agriculture, since they were intimately associated with the four Chaacs, or rain deities, and the Pawahtuns, or wind deities, all located in the four directions. The Maya of Chan Kom referred to the four skybearers as the…
Earthenware effigy urn (an incense burner) of Chaac, 12th–14th century
Chaac sculpture at the Maya Sculpture Museum, Honduras.
Rain deity impersonator, Classic period