Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/November 2012

• ... that at the Tzintzuntzan pyramids (pictured) huge fires were lit to signal the P'urhépecha kingdom that it was time to go to war?
• ...that the Maya ruins in Belize called Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat" headdress on an 8th century stela?
• ... that some modern K'iche' Maya revere rival syncretised forms of the pre-Columbian Moon goddess Awilix that are said to be the lovers of St. James?