Editing Chaac (section)

== Rain rituals ==
Among the rituals for the rain deities, the Yucatec ''Chʼa Cháak'' ceremony for asking rain centers on a ceremonial banquet for the rain deities. It includes four boys (one for each cardinal point) acting and chanting as frogs. Asking for rain and crops was also the purpose of 16th-century rituals at the [[cenote]]s, of Yucatán.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

The [[ocellated turkey]] (''yuum kuuts'') is associated with the deity; one is yearly hunted and sacrificed to obtain its blood to be offered to fields in hopes of a good harvest.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pigott |first1=Charles M. |title=Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-05430-9 |pages=114-5 |url=https://www.google.com.my/books/edition/Writing_the_Land_Writing_Humanity/PkjWDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Meleagris+ocellata+%22kuuts%22&pg=PT113&printsec=frontcover }}</ref>