Word: chac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Herbert ("Don Eduardo") Thompson, excavator of the sacred well of Yum Chac, the Rain God, and many another spot in Chichen Itza, the Mayan Capital (TIME, May 17, BOOKS), has pushed his investigations inland to Coba, an older, provincial Mayan city [visited last winter by Dr. Gann (TIME, April 26)]. The expedition found unknown ruins called by local bush-dwellers "Macanxoc" meaning "you can't read it," ruins of what was doubtless Coba's religious centre...
...baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting a reliable compendium of Mayan culture-Author Willard is himself an accomplished archeologist-the book recites in Thompson's own words the feats of dredging, and then diving, to the bottom of the home of Yum Chac, the Rain God-a limestone sinkhole 160 feet across and 150 feet deep-where virgins and warriors, decked with jade and golden bells, accompanied by balls of copal (aromatic resin), rubber and cotton goods, pottery, engraved golden disks, weapons, tiaras, brooches, mirrors, were flung as sacrifices from the high brink (TIME...
Some of Professor Murray's works are his translations of the plays of Euripides from the Greek into English poetical form. Beginning with the "Bac- chac" and "Electra", he completed nearly all of the existing plays by the Greek dramatist, and the verse translations were acted at the Court Theatre in London from 1902 to 1907. Other important books by the English classicist are his translations of Aeschylus and Aristophanes, "Hamlet and Orestes" in 1914, and "Euripides...
...Chichen Itza are a pyramidal castle 130 feet high; temples to Kukulkan, the chief Maya divinity; a civic center two miles long, surrounded by several square miles of massive buildings, terraces, etc.; a large enclosed court in which a game like basketball was played; life-size statues of Chac-Mool, the "Tiger King " of the Mayas ; a sacred well, 150 feet across and 70 feet deep, used by the Maya religious cults. In the mud at the bottom of this well have been found human skeletons - the most beautiful maidens were hurled to death here at annual festivals to propitiate...