Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Ah Cun Can" | Mayan | God of war Mayan |
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" | Mayan | Associated with the island of Cozumel, he was a god of war. Ah Hulneb means "he the spear thrower." Mayan |
God name "Ah Hulneb (he of the spear thrower)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. The local guardian deity of the city of Cozumel.... |
God name "Ah Kin" | Mayan | God of the Sun, who brings drought but protects man from the powers of evil åśśociated with darkness Mayan |
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 | God of poetry, a singer and musician Mayan |
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.... |
God name "Ah Kinchil" | Mayan | God of war and the Sun Mayan |
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 Kumix Unicob" | Maya | These are small attendant water gods |
God name "Ah Mun" | Mayan | God responsible for protecting the green maize Mayan |
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.... |
God name "Ah Muzecab" | Mayan | Bee gods Mayan |
God name "Ah Patnar Uinicob" | Maya | They are large water gods |
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 | Thunder god who lives on the tops of hills Mayan |