Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Balam (jaguar)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Guardian deities. Poorly defined spirits who protect individuals in daily life. Four balam stand at the cardinal points around a village to guard against dangerous animals. They also protect the four sides of a milpa (smallholding) against thieves.... |
God name "Balanke" | Mayan | The name of the Sun god among the Kekchi. Mayan |
Deities name "Bitol" | Mayan | A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity. Mayan |
God name "Bolon Ti Ku" | Mayan | Collective name for the the nine underworld gods who are not well defined Mayan |
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 "Bombat KaMayann" | Hindu | Local deceased goddess. Hindu |
Goddess name "Bombat Kamayan" | Hindu | A local deceased goddess |
Goddess name "Bombay Kamayan" | Hindu / northern India | Local disease goddess. Particularly worshiped at Gaya.... |
God name "Buluc Chabtan" | Mayan | Sometimes referred to as "God F," he was a war god who received human sacrifices. Mayan |
God name "Buluc Chabtan" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Associated with human sacrifice and depicted with a characteristic black line encircling the eye and extending down the cheek. Also God F.... |
God name "Cabaguil" | Mayan | God who helped create the world and mortals. Mayan |
Deities name "Cacoch" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to tradition he engendered the water lily from which sprang all the other deities of the Mayan pantheon. He is also portrayed as a messenger of the creator god HACHACYUM. Also Kacoch.... |
"Caha-Paluma" | Mayan | falling water, she was a woman created specifically to be the wife of Balam-Quitze. Mayan |
"Cakixia" | Mayan | Cakixia "water of parrots," she was a woman created specifically to be the wife of Iqi-Balam |
God name "Cakulha" | Mayan | A lightning god, an underling of Yaluk. His brother was Coyopa. Mayan |
Monster name "Camazotz" | Mayan | The cult of Camazotz worshipped an anthropomorphic monster with the body of a human, head of a bat. The bat was åśśociated with night, death, and sacrifice. Mayan |
"Camulatz" | Mayan | A bird that ate the heads of the first men. Mayan |
Deity name "Cay" | Mayan | A water deity. Mayan |