Word: chaac
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...most exciting finds in the past two decades is the 20-in.-tall statuette of the Mayan Rain God Chaac (see color), one of two discovered by a Carnegie Institution expedition in the ruined Yucatan city of Mayapan, and now on view at Mexico City's National Museum. Probably sculpted from clay in the 14th century, the prong-nosed Chaac is seen here in full regalia, with all his accouterments worked out in the full complexity of the Mayan style...
...Chaac was the most important god in the everyday life of the corn-growing Mayans. Betokening his rain-producing powers, he is shown with two pots for water, one adorned with corn symbol. Beneath his ojo de serpiente (eye of the snake) headdress, he presents a double aspect: one side still wears the now-muted green of lush cornfields; the other is the weathered brown of drought...
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