Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Chac Uayab Xoc" | Mayan | A fish god and the patron deity of fishermen. He blessed their catches, yet also ate them if they drowned. Mayan |
Demon name "Chac Uayab Xoc" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Fish god. Known as the great demon shark, he feeds on the bodies of drowned fishermen, but also provides catches.... |
God name "Chac Xib Chac" | Mayan | God of sacrifice and war. Mayan |
God name "Chac/ Chac Mol" | Maya | A god[s] of lightning, Rain, thunder, wind & fertility |
God name "Chamer" | Mayan | A god of death, particularly popular in Guatemala. He was married to Ixtab. Mayan |
God name "Chamer" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | God of death. Appears as a skeleton dressed in white. His consort is Xtabai. Attributes include a scythe with a bone blade, probably copied from the traditions of Christian immigrants.... |
God name "Chaob" | Mayan | The four wind gods. Mayan |
God name "Chaob" | Mayan | wind[s] god[s] Mayan / Lacandon |
God name "Chaob (carrying off)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | wind god(s). They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition, will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified, Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the West.... |
Goddess name "Chibilias" | Mayan | Goddess of the Rainbow. Mayan |
Goddess name "Chibirias" | Mayan | Goddess of the earth, who sends the Rain and paints the earth. Mayan |
God name "Chiccan" | Mayan | Gods of Rain. Mayan |
Deities name "Chiccan" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | Rain gods. Giant reptilian deities whose blood is cold and who evolved from snakes. They form a quartet, each living at the bottom of a deep lake situated in the four cardinal directions. They are believed to churn the waters which rise as clouds. The AH PATNAR UINICOB gods then beat the Rain from the clouds with stone axes.... |
"Chimalmat" | Mayan | A giant who, by Vucub Caquix, was the mother of Cabrakan and Zipacna. Mayan |
Goddess name "Chirakan Ixmucane" | Mayan | One of the new goddess formed by the four gods who made the world. Mayan |
God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaaneg (holy father, creator of man)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. Thought to be the Mayan name of the Christian god.... |
God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaneg" | Maya | A creator god thought by some to be the name of the Christian God |
God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaneg," | Mayan | Creator god Mayan |