rain deity

One of these warriors is a man personifying the rain deity.

The rain deity is a patron of agriculture.

The rain deities had their human counterparts.

Angels, for example, generally represent rain deities.

This was God K, who personifies the lightning axe of the rain deity.

The film involves modern Maya peoples invoking the traditional rain deity Chaac.

It absorbed those who died through drowning or lightning, or as a consequence of diseases associated with the rain deity.

In Tzotzil mythology, the rain deity also figures as the father of nubile women representing maize and vegetables.

"responsive dragon") is a winged dragon and rain deity in ancient Chinese mythology.

The rain deity.

The officiating priests of the rain-making rituals are sometimes believed to ascend into the clouds and there to act like rain deities themselves.

Often, however, it is the war-like fury of the rain deity that receives emphasis (as is also the case in the myth mentioned above).

A moralistic Tzotzil version has a man rewarded with a daughter of the Rain Deity, only to get divorced and lose her again.

They are seated in a row with rain deity impersonators (perhaps rainmakers) directly behind them, and have been interpreted as Itzá priests.

The name Prapiroon was submitted by Thailand and is the name of a Thai rain deity.

Before the Spanish, the pyramid was considered to be sacred to a female rain deity called Chiconahuiquiahuita (Nine Rains).

A tomb found in Temple II (see below) references numerous rituals associated with rain deities occurring in the late 8th century.

The king (or queen) often impersonates important deities and forces of nature, quite commonly the rain deity and the rain or lightning serpent.

He presides over the transformation of a child into a jaguar (see below) and performs a sacrificial dance around the captured Rain Deity (Chaac).

The Chorti Maya have preserved important folklore regarding the process of rain-making, which involved rain deities striking rain-carrying snakes with their axes.

God K personifies the lightning axe of the rain deity, Chaac, which is also a stereotypical attribute of the king as represented on his steles.

They reference self-sacrifice and bloodletting rituals and narrate events where Ah Pakal Tan accompanied by rain deities.

Contemporary Yucatec Maya farmers distinguish many more aspects of the rain and the clouds and personify them as different, hierarchically-ordered rain deities.

The king personifying the rain deity is then shown carrying war implements and making prisoners, while his actions seem to be equated with the violence of a thunderstorm.

A well-known example of a ritual meal is the "Holy Mass of the maize field" (misa milpera) celebrated for the Yucatec rain deities.