Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Also the goddess of childbirth and Medicine and of Rain bows. A consort of the Sun god. She has a major shrine as Cozumel and small figurines of the goddess have been conventionally placed beneath the beds of women in labor. Such women are considered to be in great danger at times of lunar eclipse when the unborn child may develop deformities. Ix Chel is a guardian against disease and the Quiche Indians regard her as a goddess of fertility and sexual inter course. A goddess of weaving, believed to be the first being on earth to weave cloth, she was employed in this craft when she first attracted the attention of the Sun god. She carries her loom sticks across the sky to protect her from jaguars. Under Chris tian influence she has been largely syncretized with the Virgin Mary.See also IX CHEBEL YAX.... |
Goddess name "Ix Kanan" | Mayan / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | vegetation goddess. The guardian of the bean plant. Her consort is the maize god IH P'EN. The cou ple are invoked at sowing time when turkeys and chickens are sacrificed.... |
Goddess name "Ix Zacal Nok (lady cloth-weaver)" | Mayan / Mesoameri can / Mexico | Creator goddess. The consort of the Sun god Kinich Ahau and also the inventor of weaving. She may represent another aspect of the mother goddess COLEL CAB. Also Ix Azal Uoh; Ixchel.See also AH KIN.... |
God name "Ixcozauhqui (yellow face in the house)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mex ico | God of fire. Associated with paternalism and one of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Ixnextli (eye-lashes)" | Aztec / Mesoameri can / Mexico | Goddess of weavers. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex.... |
God name "Ixpuztec (broken face)" | Aztec / Meso american / Mexico | Minor underworld god. One of the group clåśśed as the Mictlantecuhtli complex.... |
God name "Ixquimilli-Itzlacoliuhqui (eye-bundle curved obsidian blade)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of justice. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZ CATLIPOCA complex.... |
Goddess name "Ixtab" | Mayan | Goddess of suicide and wife of Chamer. Ixtab, depicted as a corpse with a rope around her neck, would accompany the suicides to their eternal rest Mayan |
Goddess name "Ixtab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess. Tutelary goddess of suicide victims.... |
God name "Ixtlilton (little black face)" | Aztec / Meso american / Mexico | Minor god of sexual lust. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Izquitecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Fertility god. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex personifying the maguey or agave plant from which a potent drink called pulque is brewed.... |
God name "Jupka" | N American | Creator god and teacher of the people. The Yahi, California |
Hero name "Kabibonokka" | North-American | Son of Mudjekeewis, and the Indian Boreas, who dwelt in Wabåśśo (the North). He paints the autumn leaves scarlet and yellow, sends the snow, binds the rivers in ice, and drives away the seagull, cormorant, and heron. North-American |
God name "Kabrakan" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | earthquake god. The so-called destroyer of mountains usually coupled with the god ZIPAKNA who builds mountains.... |
God name "Kai Yum (singing lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of music. He lives in the sky and is attendant on CACOCH, one of the aspects the Mayan creator god. Depicted as a brazier shaped like a pottery drum.... |
"Kai-matutsi" | N American | Kai-matutsi lived on the earth and below. The word åśśociated is with 'earth occupation.' Pomo |
God name "Kakupacat (fiery glance)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | war god. Said to bear a shield of fire with which he protects himself in battle.... |
"Kali-matutsi" | N American | Lived in the sky and heavens above. The word is åśśociated with 'sky occupation.' Pomo Indians, California |