Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk [t͡ʃaːhk]) is a rain god and fertility deity. He is both one and manifold: there are four Chaacs, one for each cardinal direction.
Characteristics[]
a sculpture of Chaac
Chaac is usually depicted holding axes and snakes, which he used to hit the clouds and make rain (with assistance from dwarves).
Family[]
According to some sources, Chac is one of the Bacabs. he is also the brother of Kinich Ahau the mayan sun god
rain rituals[]
Among the rituals for the rain deities, the mayan Chʼa Cháak ceremony for asking rain centers on a ceremonial banquet for the rain deities. It includes four boys (one for each cardinal point) acting and chanting as frogs. Asking for rain and crops was also the purpose of 16th-century rituals at the cenotes, of Yucatán. Young men and women were lowered into these wells, so as to make them enter the realm of the rain deities. Alternatively, they were thrown into the wells later to be drawn up again, and give oracles