Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"American Indians" | American Indians | Otkon, Messou, and Atahuata. |
God name "Apo (lord)" | Inca / pre Columbian South America / Peru, etc | mountain god. The apotheosis of an Andean mountain, all mountains being sacred to the South American Indians.... |
Deities name "Bolon Ti Ku" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld gods. A collective term for a group of nine deities not otherwise clearly defined. They are probably still invoked by modern Mexican Indians.... |
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.... |
"Kali-matutsi" | N American | Lived in the sky and heavens above. The word is åśśociated with 'sky occupation.' Pomo Indians, California |
Deities name "Oxiahun Ti Ku" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky gods. The collective name for a group of thirteen celestial deities who are probably still invoked by Mesoamerican Indians today.... |
God name "Poxiom" | Mayan / Tzeltal Indian, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of disease. Apparently perceived as a star in the sky or a ball of fire. He may also be depicted as a fertility god shelling maize or as a fisherman, doctor, musician or hunter. An image of the god was discovered in the Christian church in Oxchuc, and the Indians were forced to revoke and spit on the icon before it was publicly burnt.... |