Exploration of spiritual beliefs regarding the universe and underworld realms.
The Lords of the Night are a sequence of nine deities in the Maya calendrical system who govern successive nights in a repeating ritual and divinatory pattern. Recorded as Glyph G in the Supplementary Series, these entities played a critical role in the ritual timing of Classic period Maya monuments.
The Milky Way served as a central axis in Maya cosmology, influencing architecture, creation myths, and agricultural cycles. Archaeological evidence from E Groups and codices reveals its role as a path to the Otherworld and a stage for creation narratives.
An comprehensive archaeological examination of Maya cosmological beliefs, detailing the vertical universe, sacred calendars, and the materialization of time in architecture.
