| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Hun Hunapu" | Mayan | Creator god. Mayan |
| God name "Hun Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The father of HUNAPU and Ix Balan Ku. According to the sacred Mayan text Popol Vub, he was decapitated during a football game and his head became lodged in the calabash tree which bore fruit from that day.... |
| God name "Hun Nal" | Mayan | God of maize. Mayan |
| God name "Hunab Ku" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The greatest deity in the pantheon, no image is created of Hunab Ku since he is considered to be without form. His son is the iguana god, ITZAM NA, and he may have become the Mayan counterpart of the Christian god.... |
| God name "Hunahpa Utiu" | Mayan | Yet another god who helped create the human race. Mayan |
| God name "Hunahpu" | Mayan | A god, who with his twin Xbalamwque, overcame the powers of evil and of death of his father, then rose to the heavens to become the Sun and the moon. Mayan |
| God name "Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to the sacred text Popol Vub, the son of HUN HUNAPU and the twin brother of Ix Balan Ku. Tradition has it that, like his father, he was decapitated in a historic struggle with the underworld gods and subsequently became the Sun god, while his sibling is the apotheosis of the moon.... |
| God name "Hunhau" | Mayan | Appears, sometimes with the head of an owl, sometimes as a dog. A god of the underworld and the land of the dead. Mayan |
| God name "Hunhau" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. One of the several lords of death listed in the codices who rule the underworld, Mictlan. Hunhau is generally depicted with canine attributes, or with the head of an owl.See also YUM CIMIL. Also God A.... |
| God name "Huraaan" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | Creator god. Having created the world, he fashioned the first humans from pieces of maize dough. The counterpart of the Yucatec HUNAB KU.... |
| God name "Ih P'en" | Mayan | Chthonioc fertility god, concerned with the growth of plants as well as family, property and other wealth Mayan |
| Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
| God name "Ikal Ahau" | Mayan / Tzotzil, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic god of death. Perceived as a diminutive figure who lives in a cave by day but wanders at night attacking people and eating raw human flesh. He is also considered to inhabit Christian church towers in Mexico and is probably personified by vampire bats.... |
| God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan | Chthonic earth god as well as a god of fire Mayan |
| God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth god. The earth aspect of the creator god ITZAM NA. He is also a god of fire, and hearthstones are called head of Itzam Cab. Sticks of firewood are his thighs, flames his tongue and the pot resting on the fire his liver. In his vegetation aspect he is depicted with leaves of maize sprouting from his head.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Ahau" | Mayan | Goddess of the moon Mayan |
| Goddess name "Ix Ch'up" | Mayan | Goddess of the moon Mayan |
| Goddess name "Ix Chebel Yax" | Mayan | Goddess of teaching, childbirth, the moon, sexual relations, storms and water Mayan |
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