Editing Chaac (section)

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[[File:ChacDresden.jpg|thumb|center|reconstructed image of Chac, from the [[Dresden Codex]], Art by unidentified pre-Columbian Maya scribe before C.E.1500.]]
A large part of one of the four surviving Maya codices, the [[Dresden Codex]], is dedicated to the Chaacs, their locations, and activities.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/pt/item/11621/ |title = O Códice de Dresden |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1200–1250 |access-date = 2013-08-21 }}</ref> It illustrates the intimate relationship existing between the Chaacs, the [[Bacab]]s, and the aged goddess, [[Ixchel]]. The main source on the 16th-century Yucatec Maya, Bishop [[Diego de Landa]], combines the four Chaacs with the four [[Bacabs]] and Pauahtuns into one concept. The Bacabs were aged deities governing the subterranean sphere and its water supplies.