There seem to be many myths surrounding the constellation of Orion that are indigenous to Mesoamerica. The best we can do is approximate the Maya ideas about Orion and other star patterns, because each city and era must have had its local variation. The Maya were acute observers who built a complex and admirable calendar. Their lives were affected by the stars in a more direct way than modern people s are for they were closer to the natural world. The stars in the belt of Orion are called peccaries by the modern day Lacandon Maya.
Peccaries are nocturnal animals in the pig family that travel in herds.
I understand it is not wise to cross their path, and one should never insult the herd. Other Mayans see the nearby ecliptic constellation of Gemini as the mother peccary and the belt stars are her children. The great blue giant, Rigel, Kappa Orionis, the star Saiph and the belt star, Alnitak. These three stars form an equilateral triangle called, The Three Stones of the Hearth . They represent the Maya hearth, made of three stones placed in a triangular pattern.