[Aztlan] Hurricane: The four winds motif

[Elaine Day Schele]

The Mesoweb has just made a paper by Stephen Houston about hurricanes and the ancient Maya available as a PDF

Go to:
http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu.gt/eng/cuatrovientos.htm for color pictures.
 
Hurricane: The four winds motif 
Dr. Stephen Houston 
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dr. Stephen Houston of Brown University has identified hieroglyphic texts that refer to hurricanes, on two objects from the collection of the Popol Vuh Museum: Altar 1 from the site of Naranjo, Petén, and a polychrome bowl that shows three way, or companion spirits, one of which represents a whirlwind

Read the full article by Stephen Houston in Mesoweb: 
http://www.mesoweb.com/articles/houston/hurricane.html

Enjoy,
Elaine