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Lords of the Maya

The creators, rain-bringers, and death-lords of the Maya world, drawn from the Popol Vuh and the surviving codices.

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CamazotzThe Death BatThe death bat — the snatching bat-demon of the K'iche' underworld who takes off a hero's head in the dark, and the long Mesoamerican cult behind him.CreatureChaacGod of Rain and LightningThe rain god who splits the clouds with a lightning axe — one god and four, the most frequently depicted deity in the surviving Maya books.Deity

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The Hero TwinsHunahpu and XbalanqueHunahpu and Xbalanque — the ballplaying twins of the Popol Vuh who outwitted the lords of Xibalba, avenged their father, and rose as sun and moon.HeroHunab KuThe One God"The one god" of Yucatec Maya colonial texts — a name most scholars now read as a missionary translation for the Christian God, not an ancient Maya deity.Deity

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ItzamnaThe Aged CreatorThe aged creator — supreme sky god of the Maya, patron of writing, healing and divination, and the old man scholars know as God D.DeityIx Chel (Ixchel)Rainbow Lady"Rainbow Lady" — the Maya goddess of childbirth, weaving, medicine and divination, and the two distinct goddesses tangled together behind her name.Deity

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Kinich AhauSun-Faced LordK'inich Ajaw, the Maya sun god — crossed-eyed lord of day and kingship, who sinks each night into Xibalba and crosses it as a jaguar.DeityKukulkanThe Feathered SerpentThe Feathered Serpent of the Maya — creator's voice in the Popol Vuh, patron of Chichen Itza, and the shadow that descends its pyramid at the equinox.Deity

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XibalbaPlace of Fear"Place of Fear" — the K'iche' Maya underworld of the Popol Vuh, a court of disease lords whose houses of trial the Hero Twins survived and overturned.Realm