Some glyphs from "Animal Figures in the Maya Codices", by Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen.
A frog: (his necklace of circles indicates water drops)
and the tree-toad-style god:
Tozzer and Glover point out that Uo means frog in the Mayan language and Uo is a month on the Maya calendar that comes at the rainy season. The tree-toad finds pools of water at the beginning of the rainy season, breeds, and makes a loud racket. For that reason, this god is associated with bringing rain and with agriculture. It's easy for us in 2009 to chalk this 'god' stuff up to silly superstition - we would feel differently though, if we lived in Mexico in 200 AD. If it had been dry for months, the food was running out, the children were hungry, the ground was parched. We'd be doing rituals for the tree-frog god. What can we do for you, tree-frog god?!
Praise Kek!
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