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Article: Corn
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- Myths and Legends of the World
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Corn
First grown in Mexico about 5,000 years ago, corn soon became the most important food crop in Central and North America. Throughout the region, Native Americans, Maya, Aztecs, and other Indians worshiped corn gods and developed a variety of myths about the origin, planting, growing, and harvesting of corn (also known as maize).
Corn Gods and Goddesses.
The majority of corn
deities
are female and associated with fertility. They include the Cherokee goddess Selu; Yellow Woman and the Corn Mother goddess Iyatiku of the Keresan people of the American Southwest; and Chicomecoatl, the goddess of maize who was worshiped by the Aztecs of Mexico. The Maya believed that humans had been ...
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Article: Corn Reigns Tall As All-American Grain
Chicago Sun-Times;
September 2, 1993 ;
700+ words
...We raise a lot of corn in this country - half the world's crop. Even after exporting ... percent of that, we still eat a lot of cornflakes, cornbread, corn-on-the-cob, canned corn, popcorn, cornmeal mush and chocolate pudding (thickened ...
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