by Mildred Boyd

     Thanks to book-burning priests like Bishop Diego de Landa, the little we know of the Lowland Maya deities is extremely confusing. We do know that they were many and varied. The Greeks may have had a word for it but the Maya had one better; they had a god for it.
    Each deity could be benign or malevolent as the mood suited. Each demanded elegant housing, blood sacrifice, constant entertainment and, above all, unquestioning adoration. Denied any of these, they were given to childish tantrums to the dismay of their worshippers.

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