Chac
Chac Mol is the Mayan god of fertility and agriculture, the one who sends rain and thunder. Chac is linked with creation and life. He is considered into four equal entities. Each division represented the North, South, East, and West. He was also apparently associated with the wind god, Kukulcan. Later he appears as one of the Bacabs, a group of four protective deities, where Chac is the god of the East. The center of his cult was in Chichen Itzan (Yucatan.) He is the Tlaloc of the Aztec and the rain god Cocijo of the Zapotec. Chac had curling fangs, a long turned-up nose, and tears flowing from his wide eyes. His hair was made up of a tangle of knots. Chac was a friend of man. He taught them how to grow vegetables and was the protector of their cornfields. The Maya asked to him for rain by making ceremonies by which the people would settle outside the village and do fasting and sexual abstinence. The animal compared to Chac is the frog, because it signals the coming of rain by its croaking. He is also known as Ah Hoya meaning he who urinates, Ah Tzenul meaning he who gives food to others, and Hopop Caan meaning he who lights up the sky.
Mayan beauty
The Mayans had a different sense of beauty. They shaped the skulls of their newborns by tying boards to the forehead so it will slope back. Mayans had tatoos and pierced their bodies. They wore many different forms of jewelry. The most common was Jade. It was also one of the materials that the Mayas traded. The Mayas also wore gold. Being slightly crossed eyes were consdered beautiful. An object woud be dangled in front of their eyes to try to create a crossed eyes. They would put body paint on themselves for special events. They filled their teeth and put jade in the holes. Men wore loose sack like dresses. The cloths of the priests and nobles were made with finer materials and had many shells and beads on them. For ceremonies they wore wonderful head-dresses.Some design ideas come from natural surroundings including hills or snakes, flowers, and wildlife.
Food
It is known that the Mayans enjoyed chocolate. The seed from the cacao tree is the main ingredient in chocolate drinks. They drank it in many forms form a frothy drink to a puplpy mush. The Mayas referred to chocolate as "The Drink of the Gods." They had other food such as commeal, maize, black beans, rasted meat, rabbit, stew, turkey, and other meat. Their main food though was maize whish is corn.
Farming
The Mayas practiced slash and burn agriculture. Because growth is so rapid in tropical rain forests, the nutrients provided by dead plants and animal droppings gets used up very quickly.Rain forest soil is not fertile ground for growing crops. In slash and burn agriculture, the Mayans would cut down a patch of forest, burn the felled tress and plants for fertilizers, and then cultivate the plot. The Mayans dd not use fertilization techniques, so their soil would be poor in two to fur years. It takes a lot of land to support their familt. Each five people probably needed at leat seventy acres to grow their food.