Chaac

c. 200 BCE – 1500 CEattested

Yucatán

• Maya

Rain god with a long down-curved snout, who split clouds open with a lightning axe. In a limestone landscape with almost no surface rivers, no god mattered more to whether anyone ate.

Known for

• the lightning axe
• rain in a land without rivers
• the four directional Chaacs

Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.

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