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They were the gods of rain, and under the title Chac, the Red Ones, were the chief ministers of the highest power.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Sabloff uses evidence of elaborate ports, such as Chac Balam, to assert his conclusion that the Maya traded utilitarian goods during the Classic Period out of necessity and practicality.
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Sabloff uses evidence of elaborate ports, such as Chac Balam, to assert his conclusion that the Maya traded utilitarian goods during the Classic Period out of necessity and practicality.
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Some of its objects, including plastic housewares mimicking the "Chac-Mool" sculptures of the Maya and fine table linens built around traditional "rebozo" shawls, try to repurpose those cliches.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Mexican Design Blake Gopnik 2010
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More than 30 years before Mel Gibson rumbled around a Mexican rain forest re-creating Mayan legend in "Apocalypto," Chilean filmmaker Rolando Klein made "Chac: The Rain God."
Worldwide Hospitalities Steve Dollar 2011
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Xibalba Shee-BAL-buh, the underworld where various evil spirits and the rain god, Chac, could be found, was part of their mythology, a particularly important place for people dependent on rain to water their crops.
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The author, Nakuk Pech, was placed in command of the district of Chac Xulub Chen.
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The author, Nakuk Pech, was placed in command of the district of Chac Xulub Chen.
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Therefore, as Bolles points out, chun could mean a tree on which the Chac figures in the Dresden Codex are seated or "the first of" as in the written text of the Chumayel.
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Chac, the Maya rain god, and Kukulcan, the Maya wind god, will be proud of you!
Did You Know? January's weather in Mexico forecasts the rest of the year 2008
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