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The codex style vessels were elaborated during second half of 7th century and the beginning of 8th century A.C., in the area of "Cuenca del Mirador" that includes cities like Nakbé, Tintal, Pacaya and Calakmul. In this city, in the past last years, there has been a recovery of more than 700 ceramic fragments, which have a great stylistic similarity with many of the thematic ceramics which are in private collections and museums, all of them coming from the massive sacking during 70's years. Between the subjects recognized in the fragments of Calakmul, it can be found different episodes from the myth of God of maíz, as well as the launching of "baby jaguar" or Unen B'ahlam, along with other subjects where the Old God participates, and the title widely used in these vessels designates a group of power known as chatan winik. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Maya Classic period we can find some referentes to a bird named O', that seems to be related to Chaahk. This bird is part of the name of this God on an inscription at Ek' Balam and in many more at Yaxchilan, where it seems to be the patron god. The importance of this mythological bird might be seen by the number of references to it during the Colonial period, as in El Ritual de los Bacabes, where this bird is described being part of symbolic structures associated to the rain god too: the tree and the four cardinal points. This bird also appears in texts related to healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rulers from the Classic Maya period sometimes used god's appellatives as part of their personal names. Chaahk names are very abundant at that Period and we can get from them important information regarding the powers and attributes of the Rain God as about the relationship that is generated between the ruler and the god when choosing a particular name. Most of these names represent celestial actions, although Chaahk is related to the tree levels of the maya cosmogony: infraworld, supraworld and terrestrial. These appellatives are recognizable since Early Classic and remain in use during all the Post-Classic and Colonial periods. For all that, this is a new perspective that allows us to know better the essence of Classic Chaahk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]