A 10 foot-tall statue of Greek sea god Poseidon, installed in May on a beach on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula faces removal due to a conflict with a local god, the Mayan deity known as Chaac, lord of water, thunder, and lighting, as well as a lack of proper earthly permits, the AP reports.
A local complaint filed against the statute states that “Poseidon is a Greek god who is alien to our Maya culture. I have a human right for my Maya culture to be preserved.” It’s not clear if this person has filed similar injunction requests against the Catholic Church for placing statutes of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary or why the complainant didn’t ask for the Poseidon statue to be reworked in the image of Chaac, similarly to how Zeus and Odin were just merged in with the Abrahamic God.