Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/September 2014

... that Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (pictured) was the god of the planet Venus in Aztec belief?
... that archaeologists at the El Manatí Olmec site have not only found the earliest rubber balls yet discovered and the earliest wooden artifacts in Mexico, but also the skeletons, femurs, and crania of human infants?
... that the Lakandon Ch'ol are an extinct Maya people who were famed among their Spanish colonial neighbours for their warlike nature?