Mexico: Hybrid Cosmologies In Mesoamerica: A Reevaluation Of The Yax Cheel Cab, A Maya World Tree

Mexico: Hybrid Cosmologies In Mesoamerica: A Reevaluation Of The Yax Cheel Cab, A Maya World Tree Timothy W. Knowlton, and Gabrielle Vail, 2010   During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it...

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