The Mayans believed their gods to be immortal, and if “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art” is any indication, that faith was well founded. The show, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until the ...

Per a Mayan myth, when the world began, in 3114 B.C., it took the gods three tries to get humans right. The first attempt, using mud, was a wash; wood didn’t make the cut, either. Finally, corn hit ...