year II, week 11

When I first learned about this mythical creature, immediately thought about the DC’s Batman. This is the Mayan equivalent of the dark detective hero from comics but hundreds of years earlier, isn’t that cool?

Today’s mythical creature scene comes from the ancient mayas folklore, the Camazotz is a bat spirit, servant of the lords of the underworld.

Here’s the paper draft from sometime ago:

https://www.tumblr.com/manmadesketches/742046852777672704/the-camazotz-is-mayan-spirit-at-the-service-of-the

If you google “camazotz” you probably will see some stone-carved images showing a man with bat head, check the wiki page if you are curios on who it looks. But since I do’t follow the traditional images but rather my own concept, this is my view of this super cool mayan legend:

Thanks for visiting and don’t forget to come back next week for another mythical creature. I still have 41 more to complete this cycle.