Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Ac Yanto (our helper)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of white men. The brother of the creator god... |
God name "Acan" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of wine. Identified with the local brew, balche, made from fermented honey to which the bark of the balche tree has been added.... |
God name "Acat" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of tattooers. Acca Larentia... |
Deities name "Acolmiztli (shoulder-lion)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Acolnahuacatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Ah Bolon Dz'acab (many generations)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. A god identified with Rain and thunder. Also strongly linked with Agriculture and young crops. Possibly a vegetation avatara of the iguana god ITZAM NA. Attributes include a leaf-like ornament worn in the nose. Also God K.... |
Deities name "Ah Cancun" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protection of animals. Also Acanum.... |
God name "Ah Chun Caan (he of the base of the sky)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Local god. The tutelary deity of the city of Merida. Mentioned in the Vienna Dictionary.... |
God name "Ah Ciliz" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of solar eclipses. He is said to eat the Sun during an eclipse, but at other times attends upon the Sun god, serving him meals.... |
God name "Ah Cuxtal (come to hfe)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of birth. Responsible for the safe delivery of women.... |
God name "Ah Hulneb (he of the spear thrower)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. The local guardian deity of the city of Cozumel.... |
Goddess name "Ah Kin (he of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. A deity of ambivalent personality, the young suitor of the moon goddess Acna, also the aged Sun god in the sky. He is feared as the bringer of drought, but also protects mankind from the powers of evil åśśociated with darkness. Said to be carried through the underworld at night on the shoulders of the god Sucunyum. Ah Kin is prayed to at Sunrise and rituals include the burning of incense. He is invoked to cure illness and to bring wives to bachelors. Attributes include a square third eye subtended by a loop, a strong Roman nose, a squint and incisor teeth filed to a T-shape. Also Acan Chob (Lacandon); Chi Chac Chob; Kinich Ahau; God G.... |
God name "Ah Kin Xoc" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of poetry. Regarded as a great singer and musician since most Mayan poetry is Sung or chanted. He may appear as a hummingbird and is considered by some authorities to be an avatara of the Sun god. Also Ah Kin Xocbiltun; P'izlimtec.... |
Deities name "Ah Kumix Uiinicob" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. The four diminutive deities which take over from the giant AH PATNAR UINICOB deities during the dry season.... |
God name "Ah Muun" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize god. The deity responsible for protecting the unripe maize.... |
Deities name "Ah Muuzencab" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Bee gods. The patron deities of apiarists still invoked in parts of the Yucatan. They are thought to be represented iconographically on the tops and bottoms of stone columns at the site of Chichen Itza as aged men with long beards and upraised arms. They wear loin cloths with distinctive cross hatching.... |
Deities name "Ah Patnar Uinicob (owners of the jars men)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. Four huge deities who pour water on to the earth from jars. The end of the dry season is marked on May 3, completing an eight day Rain ceremony.... |
God name "Ah Peku" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Thunder god. He lives on the tops of hills and climbs into the clouds before it Rains.... |