A pyramid complex in Coba, Mexico.

This god is also referred to as their baby and can be seen held as an infant in the arms of the rulers at Palenque. Other Mesoamerican cultures portray him as a babe in arms as well, a baby with the feline facial features of a jaguar. He is their god of thunder and fire-making. When held as a scepter, one of his legs is a serpent with a gaping mouth which hungers for sacrifice. On this leg he spins as a fire-drill to create sparks. The sand which is fused by lightening strikes, fulgarite, is called his smelted lost shoe. His name varies when he is in his aspect of striking lightning with his axe. One of his names is "White Spark- Striker", the god who met the Conquistadors on the battlefield and lost. In Guatemala these characters parade in processions every year to commemorate his defeat. It is said that his guardian spirit, the quetzal bird, departed from his body when he was slain.

There are tales of encounters with spirits still told today. One involves a poor peasant farmer who went to burn copal incense and candles of the correct color in a tunnel beneath a pyramid complex. He came upon a trap-door of pure silver (silver is "pwaq" in Mayan). It was a door of "pura pwaq". He opened it and descended down ancient stone steps to a room underneath the citadel. Within the room hung the costume of White Spark- Striker which was silver representing "uk`ux pwaq" - the very heart of metal. A figure clothed in silver spoke to him, "Who sent you, what did you come here for?" "He said it in signs since his kind can`t talk", the poor man related afterwards. The farmer asked for as much wealth as he could carry, but since he was too poor to have pockets, he couldn`t carry much. For the rest of his life he searched for the silver trap-door but he was never able to find it again.

Here we have a subterranean being from a mythical dimension dressed in shimmering silver which does not use verbal communication. This sounds a lot like an extraterrestrial wearing a silver space-suit. They are famous for their non-verbal telepathy. Is this an indication that the god of the Mayans is from outer space?

In the days of the Mayan pyramid builders, the king was a shaman shape-shifter. He could transform himself into his spirit animal, be it feline or aquiline. When the king danced, he performed before an audience of provincial rulers. His transformation before their eyes was his means of maintaining his power as their king. His guardian spirit would manifest itself to his audience. By his side were his royal emblems: the royal clay ocarina, the "ch`am-ch`an" which made the sound of warbling birds, the yellow ocher and mica powder face paints, and the bone flute.

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