This is a list of deities

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a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of

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. The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of

Diego de Landa Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice.Timmer, 480 In doing so, he burne ...

, and the

Popol Vuh ''Popol Vuh'' (also ''Popul Vuh'' or ''Pop Vuj'') is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also inhabit the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, ...

. Depending on the source, most names are either

Yucatec Yucatec Maya ( ; referred to by its speakers as or ) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including part of northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic community of Yucatec Maya speakers in San Francisco, though m ...

or Kʼicheʼ. The Classic Period names (belonging to the

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) are only rarely known with certainty.

Maya mythological beings

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*CHB – Books of Chilam Balam *LAC – Lacandon ethnography *L – de Landa *M — Madrid Codex *PV – the Popol Vuh.

A

Acan

The god of wine and intoxication, identified with the drink

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Acat

The god of tattoos and tattooing.

Alom

The god of the sky and wood, a creator deity.

Ah-Muzen-Cab Ah Muzen Cab (also Ah Musen Kab) is the Maya god of bees and honey. He is possibly the same figure as "the Descending God" or "the Diving God" and is consistently depicted upside-down. The Temple of the Descending God is located in Tulum. The b ...

The god of bees and honey.

Awilix Awilix () (also spelled Ahuilix, Auilix and Avilix) was a goddess (or possibly a god) of the Mesoamerican chronology, Postclassic Kʼicheʼ people, Kʼicheʼ Maya civilization, Maya, who had a large Kʼicheʼ Kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, kingdom in the ...

The goddess of the Moon and the night.

B

Bacab Bacab () is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the Earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. ...

The old god of the interior of the earth and of thunder, sky-carrier, sometimes depicted as four Bacabs that each represent the directions.

Baalham

The jaguar god of the underworld. Also any of a group of jaguar gods who protected people and communities.

Bitol PV

A sky god. One of the creator and destroyer deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity.

Bolon Tzʼakab (Dzacab) L
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Bolontiku CHB

A group of nine underworld gods.

Bolon Yokteʼ

"Nine Strides", mentioned in the Books of Chilam Balam and in Classic inscriptions; functions unknown.

Buluc Chabtan (Deity), Buluc Chabtan [ god F ]

The god of war, violence, sacrifice, and gambling.

C

Cabrakan

A god of mountains and earthquakes. He was a son of Vucub Caquix and Chimalmat.

Cacoch LAC

Also known as kacoch. Was a male creator god worshipped by the Lacandon people and associated with Acan the god of wine. He is said to have created the water lily that all other gods sprang from.

Camazotz In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz ( from Mayan ) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language. In ...
PV

The god of bats, night, death, and sacrifice. He comes from a place called xibalba (the place of fright)

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L

The Bacab of the north, associated with the color white, and the Muluc years. Son of

Itzamna Itzamná () is, in Maya mythology, an upper god and creator deity thought to reside in the sky. Itzamná is one of the most important gods in the Classic and Postclassic Maya pantheon. Although little is known about him, scattered references a ...

and

Ixchel Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture. She corresponds to Toci, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath. She is related to another Aztec goddess invo ...

Chac L

God of rain, thunder, and lightning, wields an axe of lightning, brother to Kinich Ahau.

Chaac Uayab Xoc Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk ) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among t ...
L

A fish god and the patron deity of

Chiccan

A group of four Chorti rain gods who live in lakes and make rain clouds from the water in them. As with the Bacabs, each of the rain gods was associated with a

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. Chiccan was also the name of a day in the Tzolkin cycle of the calendar.

Cit-Bolon-Tum

A god of medicine and healing

Chimalmat

A giant who was, by Vucub Caquix, the mother of Cabrakan and Zipacna.

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The main god of relationships.

Cizin Cizin is a Maya god of death and earthquakes. He is the most important Maya death god in the Maya culture. Scholars call him God A. To the Yucatán Mayas he was Hun-Came and Vucub-Came. He also has similarities to Mictlāntēcutli. Name an ...

A god of earthquakes and death who lived in

Metnal (), roughly translated as "place of fright", is the name of the underworld (in ) in Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the v ...

Colel Cab

Goddess of the bees

Colop U Uichkin

An eclipse deity.

Coyopa

The god of thunder. Brother of Cakulha.

E

Ek Chuaj Ek Chuah, also transliterated as Ek Chuaj and known as God M in the Schellhas-Zimmermann-Taube classification of codical gods, is a Postclassic Maya merchant deity and patron deity of cacao. Ek Chuah is part of a pantheon of Maya deities that ...
M (God M)

Ek Chuaj, the "black war chief" was the patron god of

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s and

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s. He was depicted carrying a bag over his shoulder and wearing a Jaguar mantle. He was typically represented with a dangling lower lip, a long nose, sometimes a scorpion’s tail, and particularly in the Madrid codex he is painted all black.

G

GI, GII, GIII

The three patron deities of the

Palenque Palenque (; Yucatec Maya: ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamha ("big water" or "big waters"), was a Maya city-state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD ...

kingdom, made up of a sea deity with a shell ear, GII a baby lightning god ( god K), and GIII the jaguar god of fire, also patron of the number seven.

Ku'ku'lkan > Qʼuqʼumatz PV

A feathered snake god and creator. The depiction of the feathered serpent deity is present in other cultures of Mesoamerica. Gukumatz of the Kʼicheʼ Maya is closely related to the god

Kukulkan K’uk’ulkan, also spelled Kukulkan (; "Plumed Serpent", "Amazing Serpent"), is the Snake worship#Mesoamerica, serpent deity of Maya mythology. It is closely related to the deity Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ people and to Quetzalcoatl of A ...

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and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztec. God of the seas, oceans, wind, and storms.

H

Hachäkʼyum LAC

Patron deity of the Lacandon.

Hobnil L

Bacab of the east.

Hozanek L

Bacab of the south.

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Hun-Batz PV

"One Howler Monkey", one of two stepbrothers of the

Hero Twins The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial Kʼicheʼ document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have been preserved in its entirety. Called Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Kʼ ...

, one of the

Howler Monkey Gods Among the Classic Mayas, the howler monkey god was a major deity of the arts—including music—and a patron of the artisans, especially of the scribes and sculptors. As such, his sphere of influence overlapped with that of the Tonsured Maize G ...

and patron of the arts.

Hun-Came The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who are respectively represented by the 16th-century Yucatec deities Hunhau and Uacmitun Ahau ment ...
PV

"One-Death", a lord of the underworld (Xibalba) who, along with Vucub-Came "Seven-Death", killed Hun Hunahpu. They were defeated by the latter's sons the Hero Twins.

Hun-Chowen PV

One of the two stepbrothers of the

, one of the

and patron of the arts.

Hun-Hunahpu PV

The father of the Maya Hero Twins Ixbalanque and Hun-Ahpu by a virgin. Beheaded in Xibalba, the underworld, by the rulers of Xibalba, Hun Came and Vucub Came.

Hunab Ku Hunab Ku (, standard Yucatec Mayan orthography: Junab K'uj) is a colonial period Yucatec Maya ''reducido'' term meaning "The One God". It is used in colonial, and more particularly in doctrinal texts, to refer to the Christian God. Since the word ...

"Sole God", identical with Itzamna as the highest Yucatec god; or a more abstract upper god. *Current research now indicates this 'Maya' symbol is not of Maya origin and rather an invention by a Catholic missionary to more easily introduce one-god concept into the Maya culture.

Hun-Ahpu PV

One of the

Maya Hero Twins The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial Kʼicheʼ document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have been preserved in its entirety. Called Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Kʼ ...

Hunahpu-Gutch PV

One of the thirteen creator gods who helped create humanity.

Hunahpu Utiu PV

One of the thirteen creator gods who helped to create humanity.

Hun-Ixim

"One-Maize", a reading of the name glyph of the Classic Period

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Hun-nal-ye

A now-obsolete reading of the name glyph of the Classic Period

Hunraqan PV

"One-Leg", one of three lightning gods together called "Heart of the Sky", and acting as world creators. God of the

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, and

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I

Itzamna Itzamná () is, in Maya mythology, an upper god and creator deity thought to reside in the sky. Itzamná is one of the most important gods in the Classic and Postclassic Maya pantheon. Although little is known about him, scattered references a ...

:The creator god

Itzananohkʼu

:A patron god of the Lacandon people.

Xbalanque

Ixchel Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture. She corresponds to Toci, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath. She is related to another Aztec goddess invo ...
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:Jaguar goddess of midwifery, medicine and the moon.

Ixmucane In Maya mythology, Chriakan-Ixmucane was a creator goddess formed out of four earlier creator gods. She is one of the thirteen creator deities who helped construct humanity. Other Maya stories speak of another goddess A goddess is a female de ...
PV

:One of the thirteen creator gods who helped create humanity, grandmother of the Hero Twins.

Ixpiyacoc PV

:A creator god who helped create humanity.

Ixtab At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ( ʃˈtaɓ "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to he ...
L

:Goddess of suicide, represented with a rope around her neck.

J

Jacawitz Jacawitz () (also spelt Jakawitz, Jakawits, Qʼaqʼawits and Hacavitz) was a mountain god of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya of highland Guatemala. He was the patron of the Ajaw Kʼicheʼ lineage and was a companion of the sun god Tohil. It i ...
PV

mountain god of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya

K

Kʼawiil Kʼawiil, in the Post-Classic codices corresponding to God K, is a Maya deity identified with power, creation, and lightning. He is characterized by a zoomorphic head, with large eyes, long, upturned snout and attenuated serpent foot. As a creator ...
(Kawil, Kauil)

Assumed to have been the Classic name of God K (Bolon Dzacab). Title attested for Itzamna, Uaxac Yol, and Amaite Ku; family name; probably not meaning "food", but "powerful".

K'inich Ahau

The solar deity.

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(Cisin)

The most commonly depicted god of death.

Kukulkan K’uk’ulkan, also spelled Kukulkan (; "Plumed Serpent", "Amazing Serpent"), is the Snake worship#Mesoamerica, serpent deity of Maya mythology. It is closely related to the deity Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ people and to Quetzalcoatl of A ...

"Feathered Serpent". Although heavily Mexicanised, Kukulkan has his origins among the Maya of the Classic Period, when he was known as Waxaklahun Ubah Kan (/waʃaklaˈχuːn uːˈɓaχ kän/), the War Serpent, and he has been identified as the Postclassic version of the Vision Serpent of Classic Maya art.

M

Mam

A title of respect meaning "Grandfather" and applied to a number of different Maya deities including earth spirits, mountain spirits, and the four Bacabs.

Maximon

A god of travelers, merchants, medicine men/women, mischief and fertility, later conflated with Saint Simon and in modern times part of the celebrations surrounding

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N

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The god of

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. A Powerful god, claimed to be stronger than all the other gods of war in every other religion.

Nohochacyum

A creator-destroyer deity, the brother of the death god Kisin (or possibly another earthquake god also known as Kisin). He is the sworn enemy of the world serpent Hapikern and it is said that, in the end of days, he will destroy Hapikern by wrapping him around himself to smother him. In some versions, this will destroy life on Earth. He is related, in some stories, to Usukan, Uyitzin, Yantho and Hapikern, all of whom wish ill to human beings. Brother of Xamaniqinqu, the patron god of travelers and merchants.

Q

Qaholom PV

One of the second set of creator gods.

Qʼuqʼumatz Qʼuqʼumatz (; alternatively Gukumatz) was a god of wind and rain of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya. It was the Feathered Serpent that according to the ''Popol Vuh'' created the world and humanity, together with the god Tepeu.. It carried t ...
PV

Feathered Snake god and creator. The depiction of the feathered serpent deity is present in other cultures of Mesoamerica. Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ Maya is closely related to the god

and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs.

S

Sip

A hunting god of the Yucatec Maya arguably ears and antlers.

T

Tepeu Tepeu is a word of the Kʼicheʼ Maya language meaning "sovereign" (also "one who conquers" or "one who is victorious"). The title is associated with the god Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ-Maya, one of the creation gods of the Popol Vuh; his whole ...
PV

A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity.

Tohil Tohil (, also spelled Tojil) is the Maya god of fire. He is a deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Tohil was the patron god of the Kʼicheʼ. He was included in the Tol ...
PV

A patron god of the Kʼicheʼ, to whom a great temple was erected at the Kʼicheʼ capital

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Tunkuruchu PV

An ancient owl, one who foretells death. At a party held by all birds, he was humiliated by some humans, and as revenge, he would visit them announcing their deaths.

V

Vatanchu

"Straight God", a mountain god of the Postclassic

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Votan

Legendary ancestral deity, Chiapas.

Vucub-Caquix Vucub-Caquix (, , possibly meaning 'seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of an ancient Maya myth preserved in an 18th-century K'iche' document, entitled ʼPopol Vuhʼ. The episode of the demon's defeat was already ...
PV

A bird being, whose wife is Chimalmat and whose sons are the demonic giants Cabrakan and Zipacna.

X

Xaman Ek

The god of travelers and merchants, who gave offerings to him on the side of

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s while traveling.

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or War Twins and companion to Hunahpu.

Xcarruchan

A mountain god of the Postclassic Manche Chʼol.

Xmucane and Xpiayoc PV

A creator god couple which helped create the first humans. They are also the parents of Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu. They were called Grandmother of Day, Grandmother of Light and Bearer twice over, begetter twice over and given the titles midwife and matchmaker.

Xquic Xquic (or Ixquic , ALMG: Xkikʼ, sometimes glossed as ''"Blood Moon"'' or ''"Blood Girl/Maiden"'' in English) is a mythological figure known from the 16th century Kʼicheʼ manuscript ''Popol Vuh''. She was the daughter of one of the lords of ...

She was the daughter of Cuchumaquic, one of the lords of the underworld,

Xibalba (), roughly translated as "place of fright", is the name of the underworld (in ) in Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the ...

. She is noted for being the mother of the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque and is sometimes considered to be the Maya goddess associated with the waning moon.

Y

Yaluk

One of four Mopan "Grandfathers" of the earth and chief lightning god.

Yopaat

An important rain god at Copán and Quiriguá in the southern Maya area.Gutiérrez González 2012, p. 1061.

Yum Kaax

God of the woods, of wild nature, and of the hunt; invoked before carving out a maize field from the wilderness.

Z

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The

Bacab Bacab () is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the Earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. ...

of the west.

Zipacna PV

A demonic personification of the earth crust.

Notes

References

* * Knowlton, Timothy W., ''Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam''. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2010. * Taube, Karl, ''The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatán''. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington 1992. * Mark, Joshua (2012)
"The Mayan Pantheon: The Many Gods of the Maya"
''worldhistory.org''. * * Thompson, J. Eric S. ''Maya History and Religion''. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1970. * * {{List of mythological figures by region * Maya gods Maya goddesses Mesoamerican deities Maya gods and supernatural beings Maya gods and supernatural beings

Maya mythological beings

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Ah-Muzen-Cab Ah Muzen Cab (also Ah Musen Kab) is the Maya god of bees and honey. He is possibly the same figure as "the Descending God" or "the Diving God" and is consistently depicted upside-down. The Temple of the Descending God is located in Tulum. The b ...

Awilix Awilix () (also spelled Ahuilix, Auilix and Avilix) was a goddess (or possibly a god) of the Mesoamerican chronology, Postclassic Kʼicheʼ people, Kʼicheʼ Maya civilization, Maya, who had a large Kʼicheʼ Kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, kingdom in the ...

B

Bacab Bacab () is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the Earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. ...

Bitol *PV*

Bolon Tzʼakab (Dzacab) *L* god In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the un ...

Bolontiku *CHB*

Bolon Yokteʼ

Buluc Chabtan (Deity), Buluc Chabtan [ god F ]

C

Cacoch *LAC*

Camazotz In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz ( from Mayan ) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language. In ... *PV*

Can Tzicnal Can may refer to: Language * A verb for ability * A verb for probability Containers * A container used for food preservation in canning ** Aluminum can ** Drink can ** Steel and tin cans * Trash can * Oil can * Petrol can Music * Can (ban ... *L*

Chac *L*

Chaac Uayab Xoc Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk ) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among t ... *L*

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Cizin Cizin is a Maya god of death and earthquakes. He is the most important Maya death god in the Maya culture. Scholars call him God A. To the Yucatán Mayas he was Hun-Came and Vucub-Came. He also has similarities to Mictlāntēcutli. Name an ...

Colel Cab

E

Ek Chuaj Ek Chuah, also transliterated as Ek Chuaj and known as God M in the Schellhas-Zimmermann-Taube classification of codical gods, is a Postclassic Maya merchant deity and patron deity of cacao. Ek Chuah is part of a pantheon of Maya deities that ... *M* (God M)

G

GI, GII, GIII

Ku'ku'lkan > Qʼuqʼumatz *PV*

H

Hachäkʼyum *LAC*

Hobnil *L*

Hozanek *L*

Hun-Batz *PV*

Hun-Came The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who are respectively represented by the 16th-century Yucatec deities Hunhau and Uacmitun Ahau ment ... *PV*

Hun-Chowen *PV*

Hun-Hunahpu *PV*

Hunab Ku Hunab Ku (, standard Yucatec Mayan orthography: Junab K'uj) is a colonial period Yucatec Maya ''reducido'' term meaning "The One God". It is used in colonial, and more particularly in doctrinal texts, to refer to the Christian God. Since the word ...

Hun-Ahpu *PV*

Hunahpu-Gutch *PV*

Hunahpu Utiu *PV*

Hunraqan *PV*

I

Itzamna Itzamná () is, in Maya mythology, an upper god and creator deity thought to reside in the sky. Itzamná is one of the most important gods in the Classic and Postclassic Maya pantheon. Although little is known about him, scattered references a ...

Xbalanque

Ixchel Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture. She corresponds to Toci, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath. She is related to another Aztec goddess invo ... *L* oddess O

Ixmucane In Maya mythology, Chriakan-Ixmucane was a creator goddess formed out of four earlier creator gods. She is one of the thirteen creator deities who helped construct humanity. Other Maya stories speak of another goddess A goddess is a female de ... *PV*

Ixpiyacoc *PV*

Ixtab At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ( ʃˈtaɓ "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to he ... *L*

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Jacawitz Jacawitz () (also spelt Jakawitz, Jakawits, Qʼaqʼawits and Hacavitz) was a mountain god of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya of highland Guatemala. He was the patron of the Ajaw Kʼicheʼ lineage and was a companion of the sun god Tohil. It i ... *PV*

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Kʼawiil Kʼawiil, in the Post-Classic codices corresponding to God K, is a Maya deity identified with power, creation, and lightning. He is characterized by a zoomorphic head, with large eyes, long, upturned snout and attenuated serpent foot. As a creator ... (Kawil, Kauil)

Kisin Kisin (Cyrillic: Кисин) may refer to * Cizin, a Maya god of death and earthquakes * Kisin House in Rostov-on-Don, Russia * Kisin (surname) See also * Kissin (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, surname, geo ... (Cisin)

Kukulkan K’uk’ulkan, also spelled Kukulkan (; "Plumed Serpent", "Amazing Serpent"), is the Snake worship#Mesoamerica, serpent deity of Maya mythology. It is closely related to the deity Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ people and to Quetzalcoatl of A ...

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Nakon Nako, Nakon, Nakko, or Nacco (flourished 954 – c. 966) was an Obotrite leader who, along with his brother Stoigniew, led the forces of a Slavic confederacy in a revolt against the Germans, especially Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony. Małecki ...

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Qaholom *PV*

Qʼuqʼumatz Qʼuqʼumatz (; alternatively Gukumatz) was a god of wind and rain of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya. It was the Feathered Serpent that according to the ''Popol Vuh'' created the world and humanity, together with the god Tepeu.. It carried t ... *PV*

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Tepeu Tepeu is a word of the Kʼicheʼ Maya language meaning "sovereign" (also "one who conquers" or "one who is victorious"). The title is associated with the god Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ-Maya, one of the creation gods of the Popol Vuh; his whole ... *PV*

Tohil Tohil (, also spelled Tojil) is the Maya god of fire. He is a deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Tohil was the patron god of the Kʼicheʼ. He was included in the Tol ... *PV*

Tunkuruchu *PV*

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Vucub-Caquix Vucub-Caquix (, , possibly meaning 'seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of an ancient Maya myth preserved in an 18th-century K'iche' document, entitled ʼPopol Vuhʼ. The episode of the demon's defeat was already ... *PV*

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Xmucane and Xpiayoc *PV*

Xquic Xquic (or Ixquic , ALMG: Xkikʼ, sometimes glossed as ''"Blood Moon"'' or ''"Blood Girl/Maiden"'' in English) is a mythological figure known from the 16th century Kʼicheʼ manuscript ''Popol Vuh''. She was the daughter of one of the lords of ...

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Zac Cimi Zac is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Zachary or Zechariah. It may refer to: People * Zac Alexander (born 1989), Australian professional squash player * Zac Brooks (born 1993), American National Football League play ... *L*

Zipacna *PV*

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Bitol PV

Bolon Tzʼakab (Dzacab) L
god In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the un ...

Bolontiku CHB

Cacoch LAC

Camazotz In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz ( from Mayan ) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language. In ...
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Can Tzicnal Can may refer to: Language * A verb for ability * A verb for probability Containers * A container used for food preservation in canning Aluminum can Drink can ** Steel and tin cans * Trash can * Oil can * Petrol can Music * Can (ban ...
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Chac L

Chaac Uayab Xoc Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk ) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among t ...
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Ek Chuaj Ek Chuah, also transliterated as Ek Chuaj and known as God M in the Schellhas-Zimmermann-Taube classification of codical gods, is a Postclassic Maya merchant deity and patron deity of cacao. Ek Chuah is part of a pantheon of Maya deities that ...
M (God M)

Ku'ku'lkan > Qʼuqʼumatz PV

Hachäkʼyum LAC

Hobnil L

Hozanek L

Hun-Batz PV

Hun-Came The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who are respectively represented by the 16th-century Yucatec deities Hunhau and Uacmitun Ahau ment ...
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Hun-Chowen PV

Hun-Hunahpu PV

Hun-Ahpu PV

Hunahpu-Gutch PV

Hunahpu Utiu PV

Hunraqan PV

Ixchel Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture. She corresponds to Toci, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath. She is related to another Aztec goddess invo ...
L oddess O

Ixmucane In Maya mythology, Chriakan-Ixmucane was a creator goddess formed out of four earlier creator gods. She is one of the thirteen creator deities who helped construct humanity. Other Maya stories speak of another goddess A goddess is a female de ...
PV

Ixpiyacoc PV

Ixtab At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ( ʃˈtaɓ "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to he ...
L

Jacawitz Jacawitz () (also spelt Jakawitz, Jakawits, Qʼaqʼawits and Hacavitz) was a mountain god of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya of highland Guatemala. He was the patron of the Ajaw Kʼicheʼ lineage and was a companion of the sun god Tohil. It i ...
PV

Kʼawiil Kʼawiil, in the Post-Classic codices corresponding to God K, is a Maya deity identified with power, creation, and lightning. He is characterized by a zoomorphic head, with large eyes, long, upturned snout and attenuated serpent foot. As a creator ...
(Kawil, Kauil)

Kisin Kisin (Cyrillic: Кисин) may refer to * Cizin, a Maya god of death and earthquakes * Kisin House in Rostov-on-Don, Russia * Kisin (surname) See also * Kissin (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, surname, geo ...
(Cisin)

Qaholom PV

Qʼuqʼumatz Qʼuqʼumatz (; alternatively Gukumatz) was a god of wind and rain of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya. It was the Feathered Serpent that according to the ''Popol Vuh'' created the world and humanity, together with the god Tepeu.. It carried t ...
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Tepeu Tepeu is a word of the Kʼicheʼ Maya language meaning "sovereign" (also "one who conquers" or "one who is victorious"). The title is associated with the god Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ-Maya, one of the creation gods of the Popol Vuh; his whole ...
PV

Tohil Tohil (, also spelled Tojil) is the Maya god of fire. He is a deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Tohil was the patron god of the Kʼicheʼ. He was included in the Tol ...
PV

Tunkuruchu PV

Vucub-Caquix Vucub-Caquix (, , possibly meaning 'seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of an ancient Maya myth preserved in an 18th-century K'iche' document, entitled ʼPopol Vuhʼ. The episode of the demon's defeat was already ...
PV

Xmucane and Xpiayoc PV

Zac Cimi Zac is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Zachary or Zechariah. It may refer to: People * Zac Alexander (born 1989), Australian professional squash player * Zac Brooks (born 1993), American National Football League play ...
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Zipacna PV