Chacmool

As Chak Mo'ol ( Chac Mool or even Chac M'ol; Maya about Red Jaguar Jaguar or Big ) describes a specific type of stone sculptures in the territory of the people of the Maya. The name goes back to the American archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon, which assigned him the statues in 1875. They have nothing to do with the important Mayan god Chaak.

In a Chak Mo'ol is a sculpture of a human figure lying that has a hand turned her head to the side, on the other hand is based on their elbows and holds simultaneously bent her legs. At the site of the belly she holds either a shell or there is a depression. There are assumptions that these were used to perform human sacrifices.

These characters appear only in Postclassic Mesoamerica. During this time they can demonstrate Michoacán to Nicaragua.