This sculpture in jadeite jade, meassures in Height: 12.5 cms; Width: 8.5 cms; and Width:7.5 cms. Originally taken from a Mayan Codex, today housed in Dresden, Germany. The Maize God is one of the main deities in Mayan Mithology,and plays a major role in the "Popol Vuh" (a Sacred Mayan Manuscript). Corn in precolombian times, was the main feeding for the mesoamerican people, and was considered a sacred plant, and thus, revered as such.