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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth
Yum Kaax
Maya maize and forest deity
the young maize lord whose green head sprouts corn and whose body the forest shelters, walking between the sacred trees of the jungle
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.
