December 2002
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Introduction Death was an omnipresent event in the Maya lowlands. This fact is dramatically reflected in the manifold death gods and supernaturals in maya myths. Several forms of death supernaturals appear, especially in Codex Style ceramics, and they represent distinct aspects of death and disease. Grube and Nahm [1] identify several such frightning creatures in their seminal census of Xibalba. In this short note I describe one particular form of god A that seems exclusively associated with the myth of the "baby jaguar". This god has some unique iconographic features that seem to be the main subject of his name phrase. II. Iconography The vases I will be focusing on in this note are all Codex Style and correspond to the Late Classic Period in style. These originate almost exclusively in the Nakbe-El Mirador basin. They depict what is commonly called the "sacrifice of the baby jaguar". The central event seems to center around some action performed on a half human, half jaguar baby c