On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá ... to allow the planted seeds to sprout and the young corn god to make his appearance in the shape of a barely ...

And, as they did so, everywhere stories about gods emerged ... the ancestors of all the Maya people. The Maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed ...

In 1968, while archeologists excavated a tomb within the temple, they found a large, full-rounded sculpted head of Kinich Ahau, the sun god. Weighing almost ten pounds, it was the largest Maya ...