Projects day

The preliminary rounds for Project's day is around the corner, and everyone is gearing up for work. This year, project's Day is going to be a though one for me because i am taking on a whole new category "resource development". I chose this category as I thought that it matched my skill, and also at the same time, I was being offered a group, an extremely hard working, efficient, group. Therefore I decided to give this category a try. Before we commence the project, we had a lot of dispute, over the content of the project, as resource is a category which has millions of possibilities. However we soon settled and decided on doing about the Mayan civilization.As our project must be kept a secret, I cannot reveal too much on our final product. However , what I can reveal is my role in this project. My role in the group, is to be a web and graphic designer. I personally like this role a lot as I think I am able to carry out the job.

From my experience, I know that in order to have a successful project, the key is to start early. Therefore, over the weekend, I have began to draw some pictures of mayan gods. To be honest, I find these gods/goddess, rather interesting, as each of them have a story behind their origins.

So, here are some pictures of work :



Kinich Ahau (the one above)
Kinich Ahau was the Sun god. He was the patron god of the city Itzamal. Supposedly, he visited the city at noon everday. He would descend as a macaw and consume prepared offerings. Kinich Ahau is usually shown with jaguar-like features (ex. filed teeth). Kinich Ahau also wears the symbol of Kin, a Mayan day. Kinich Ahau was also know by the name Ah Xoc Kin, who was associated with poetry and music.

Chac (the one below)
In Maya mythology, Chac (sometimes spelled "Chaac") was the god of rain and thunder, and important as a fertility and agriculture god. Like some other Maya gods, Chac was sometimes thought of as one god, and other times as 4 separate gods based in the four cardinal directions: "Chac Xib Chac", Red Chac of the East; "Sac Xib Chac", White North Chac; "Ek Xib Chac" Black West Chac", and "Kan Xib Chac", Yellow East Chac.

In art, he was sometimes depicted as an old man with some reptilian or amphibian features, with fangs and a long nose, sometimes tears coming from his eyes (symbolizing rain) and carrying an axe (which caused thunder). He was associated with the frog. Other Maya terms used to refer to Chac include Ah Tzenul, ("he who gives food away to other people"), Hopop Caan ("he who lights the sky"), and Ah Hoya ("he who urinates").Names for the Rain God in other Mesoamerican cultures include Cocijo (Zapotec) and Tlaloc (Aztec).

While most of the ancient Mesoamerican gods are long forgotten by the descendants of the original inhabitants today, prayers to the Chaacs, most generally as a routine and not in times of drought, are documented in Yucatán as continuing into the 21st century among nominal Christian Maya farmers. Anthropologists have documented other prayers still in use which are identical to pre-Columbian prayers to Chac except that the name Chac has been replaced by that of Saint Thomas.Chac should not be confused with the Maya-Toltec figure Chac Mool.

information taken from : http://www.crystalinks.com/mayangods.html