Batman already existed in Mayan mythology and was called Camazotz

The Mayan civilization worshiped Camazotz, an ancient god who had the body of a human and the head of a bat and resembled Batman

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

About 2500 years ago, and even before DC Comics introduced us to Batman, the famous hero created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger back in 1939, the Maya civilization loved Camazotz, an ancient god who had the body of a human and the head of a bat exactly like the superhero behind the tycoon Bruce Wayne.





Camazotz, which in the Mayan language means 'death bat', was a demigod who, according to Mesoamerican mythology, lived in caves and was actually very dangerous. The first to worship these figures were the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca in Mexico and then the Maya Quiché tribe, as evidenced by some findings dating back to the ancient civilization.

Batman we all know him, fighting crime, after seeing his parents die. In Gotham city he is the paladin, he wears a bat mask, but he is still a human being. In the ancient Mayan civilization, bats were considered menacing creatures, often associated with death, such as Camazotz a monstrous being who inhabited the 'bat house', i.e. a cave named Zotzilaha, as described in the Popol Vuh, a collection of myths and legends of the civilization that inhabited the Quiché land (K'iche '), one of the Mayan kingdoms in Guatemala.

Most scholars believe Camazotz was inspired by the common bat, but others have suggested that it was based on a giant bat that (probably) went extinct during the Pleistocene or Holocene.

With a human body, the head of a bat, Camazotz according to the Maya attacked the victims and decapitated them, according to the civilization he killed the hero Maya Hunahpu. But Camazotz is also one of the four animal demons responsible for the annihilation of humanity during the age of the first sun. The figure of the bat, in mythology, is linked to that of vampires, associated with blood and sacrifice; in nature there are three species of vampire bat (Desmodontini) so called because they feed on the blood of other animals. They are Azara's true vampire (Desmodus rotundus), the Amazonian vampire (Diaemus youngi) and the tailless vampire (Diphylla ecaudata).


This is the creature found in Mayan literature:

Batman already existed in Mayan mythology and was called Camazotz

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In 1988, a vampire bat fossil was discovered in the Venezuelan province of Mongas. The bat was 25 times larger than modern vampire bats and was named Desmodus Draculae. Remains of specimens have been found in the Yucatan, Belize, northern Brazil and Venezuela. In 2000, a tooth from this vampire bat was found in Argentina, but it is difficult to date exactly when it became extinct or even if it did not go extinct.

Returning to Camazotz, adored in the territories that today are Honduras and Guatemala, according to the archaeologist Maria Teresa Munoz Espinosa of INAH, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia the meaning of the name would be 'bat-death' and the creature would be something different from a canonical deity.

In reality, it would be a figure belonging to a middle world and who would bring death with him. This association does not derive solely from its relationship with the night and the darkness of the underworld, but above all from the fact that Camazotz, as we said, was considered to be responsible for the beheadings. It is not known if the creators of Batman were actually inspired by the Mayan creature, but the connection is very fascinating. In 2014, when Warner Brothers decided to update Batman's appearance, over 30 artists came together to create the hero. One of all, Christian Pacheco, owner of a design agency from the Yucatan, spoke precisely of the similarity with Camazotz.


Batman already existed in Mayan mythology and was called Camazotz

@mexicodesconocido


 

Fonti: Telecinco/The Yucatan Times/Unknown Mexico

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