27. Elsa beside the sacred well, also called Cenote Sagrado o de los Sacrificios (Well of Sacrifices). As the Mayas believed that their god Chac lived in its depths, they had the ritualistic custom of throwing into its waters warriors, children and young virgins with their jewels and rich offerings, as a propitiatory sacrifice to plead for rain.

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