This civilization's priests could supposedly conjure up tiny invisible goblins to help farmers grow crops.
This civilization's priests could supposedly conjure up tiny invisible goblins to help farmers grow crops. Burial customs of this civilization included bodies being wrapped in cotton mantles and graves being sprinkled with a generous helping of ground cinnabar dust. Much of this civilization's art depicts people who are asleep transforming into animals such as wolves, birds, and deer-monkey hybrids. A limestone carving known as Lintel 24 shows a powerful queen from this civilization pulling a shard-studded rope through her (*) tongue. The oracular chilam priests of this civilization enjoyed higher prestige than the ah nakom, who used natural sinkholes known as cenotes as sites of human sacrifice. This civilization held that caves were the natural entrance to a six-housed underworld ruled by lords named One Death and Seven Death, named Xibalba. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican civilization whose base 20 Long Count calendar ended one of its cycles in 2012.
This civilization's priests could supposedly conjure up tiny invisible goblins to help farmers grow crops.
Maya