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Learn about the Jaguar God: Mayan rulers used the jaguar as a symbol for the divine right of kings. The Jaguar God, the Night un, inhabited the Underworld, home of the dead, and was one of the major characters in the Mayan pantheon. Each morning, he became the Sun God, traveling across the sky to the west, where he fell back into the Underworld. To maintain the cycle of night and day, rulers performed rituals to appease the gods.
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