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| 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.... |
| 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 Cuxtal (come to hfe)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of birth. Responsible for the safe delivery of women.... |
| 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 Peku" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Thunder god. He lives on the tops of hills and climbs into the clouds before it Rains.... |
| God name "Arapacana" | Buddhist | God. Buddhist |
| Deities name "Arapacana" | Buddhist | God. A BODHISATTVA or spiritual meditation buddha. Originally a DHARANI of MANJUSRI who became deified. Accompanied by four minor deities. Also a collective name for the five buddhas. Color: yellow or red. Attributes: standing wearing a monkish garment and carrying Book and sword.... |
| 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.... |
| God name "Chaos" | Greek | The vacant and infinite space which existed according to the ancient cosmogonies previous to the creation of the world (Theogony 116), and out of which the gods, men, and all things arose. Greek |
| God name "Hacha'kyum" | Maya / Lacandon | The god of the real people |
| Deities name "Hachacyum (our very lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The creator of the world åśśisted by three other deities, his consort and two brothers, one of whom is Sucunyum, his counterpart (or alter ego) in the underworld. Also Nohochacyum (our great lord).... |
| God name "Huracan" | Quiche | Creator god who fashioned the first humans Quiche |
| God name "Huracan/ Hurucan/ Hurakan/ Hurukan" | Quiche | A creator god that fashioned the first humans |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Kesini (hairy)" | Buddhist | Goddess. An attendant of ARAPACANA.... |
| God name "Kianto Lacandon" | Maya | This is the god of foreigners & all diseases |
| God name "Nahui Oiiin (earthquake sun)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to most of the codices, at the time of the Spanish conquest there had been four previous world ages, each represented by a Sun and terminated by a cataclysm. Ollin, the fifth Sun, was created at Teotihuacan and at the conquest was just under 2,000 years old. It is presided over by the god TONATIUH. Each creation is considered to last 2028 x 52 terrestrial years and the present one is destined to be destroyed by a great earthquake. Tradition has it that Ollin was originally a sickly or humble deity named NANAHUATL (the diseased one). Also (4)Ollin; Ollintonatiuh.... |
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