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The Maya also had the concept of the Axis Mundi, or World Tree, but in addition, they had a Crocodile Tree representing our galaxy - the Milky Way, and they visited Hunab Ku - the galactic centre which lies in the mouth of the crocodile, (or dark rift as we call it).

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