Sentence examples for corn god from inspiring English sources

She goes out into a field and does the Electric Slide to please the corn god.

Another symbol of the corn god is a foliated cross or life tree represented in two Palenque sanctuaries.

The corn god, a youthful deity with an ear of corn in his headdress, also ruled over vegetation in general.

Surely present were several important deities of the later, established Mesoamerican pantheon, such as the fire god, rain god, corn god, and Feathered Serpent.

One of the panels depicts the Hero Twins beneath a bird deity; the other panel features a Mayan maize (corn) god surrounded by a serpent.

China; a statue of a Mayan corn god; a representation of two swimming reindeer sculptured from a mammoth tusk during the last Ice Age.

The Maya revered maize and even modelled busts of their young maize god with flowing hair to resemble the silk tassel on an ear of corn.

Deified heavenly bodies and time periods were added to the earlier-conceived corn and rain gods.

Their significance was twofold: as fertility deities, they gave birth to the young gods of corn, Centéotl, and of flowers, Xochipilli; as symbols of the earth that devoured the bodies and drank the blood, they appeared as warlike godheads.

One such union has begun in Mexico City, taking the form of Maizz Visual's projection mapped Dioses del Maíz, or Gods of Corn. .

Here they make offerings to the gods of the corn and the deer, and gather the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, whose ritual consumption is a cornerstone of their culture.