-1300year-old archaeological discovery of the head of the god of corn in the Mayan civilization!
Last summer, while excavating at the archaeological site of Palenque in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, scientists at work were surprised to reach the tip of a large nose under the dirt. Then they removed more debris, but carefully, and reached half a face; Nostrils, chin, parted lips that the average human would have, and a half-open mouth.
Now, the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has revealed that this face that was discovered last summer was only part of a complete head of plaster, dating back 1,300 years, and it is likely that the face belongs to one of the maize gods in the ancient Mayan civilization, the face of a young man named Hun Hunahpu.
In a statement from archaeologist Arnoldo Gonzalez Cruz, who was one of the discoverers, he said:
"The discovery of these sediments, or remains, allows us to understand how the Maya peoples of ancient Palenque revived the mythical event around the birth, death and resurrection of the maize god."
In the details of the head of this Mayan corn deity, the head was 9 inches (about 22 cm) long, and its position was east-west, which scholars believed to be a sign or representation of the emergence of the corn plant at dawn. Scientists believe that the Maya people placed this stone head over a pond to symbolize the destination or entrance to the underworld, and that there was only a severed head (and not the whole body, for example), so the scientists considered it a depiction of the art of the Mayan civilization, which depicts its decapitated deities.
And about the importance of the discovered deity, the Maya peoples worshiped the god Honahpu, and they believed that his head was cut off every fall at the time of the corn harvest, and then he was born again the following spring at the beginning of the new growing season, and for this the Maya also linked Hun Honapo with the human life cycle and changing seasons. This is what reporter Ariella Marsden wrote in the Jerusalem Post.
Archaeologists have dated the stucco statue to the Late Classical period, around 700 to 850 BC, and believe it represented a young corn deity because of its haircut, which looks like ripe corn. Popular at the time, this depiction of the deity symbolized ripe, fertile corn, according to members of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Maize was not only an important source of food for the Maya, but also played an essential role in their beliefs. According to the sources, the Mayans believed that God created humans from yellow and white corn.
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