Acan:
A god of alcoholic beverages
Acat:
Yucatec divine patron of those making scarifications and tattoos (Cogolludo); also called Acat and Ah Cat.[2]
Ah Muzencab:
The god of bees.
Ah Peku:
The god of thunder.
Ah Puch:
The god of death.
Ah Tabai:
The god of the hunt.
Ah Uuc Ticab:
A god of the Earth.
Ahau Chamahez:
A god of medicine and good health.
Ajbit:
One of the thirteen creator gods who helped construct humanity from maize.
Ajtzak:
One of the thirteen creator gods who helped construct humanity from maize.
Akna:
Meaning "Our mother," a very general title applied, amongst others, to goddesses of fertility and childbirth.
Alom:
A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity.
Awilix:
Patron of the Nija'ib' lineage of the K'iche'
Bacab
Old god of the interior of the earth and of thunder, sky-carrier, fourfold.
Bahlam
Any of a group of jaguar gods who protected people and communities.
Bitol
A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity.
Bolon Ts'akab (Dzacab)
Ah Bolon Dzacab 'Innumerable Generations', the Lightning god, patron of the harvest and the seeds.
Bolontiku
A group of nine underworld gods.
Bolon Yokte'
'Nine Strides', mentioned in the Books of Chilam Balam and in Classic inscriptions; functions unknown.
Buluc Chabtan
The god of war, violence, and sacrifice.
Cabrakan
A god of mountains and earthquakes. He was a son of Vucub Caquix and Chimalmat.
Cacoch
A creator god.
Camazotz
Bat god, tries to kill the Hero Twins. Enemy of Chaac
Can Tzicnal
Bacab of the north, is assigned the color white, and the Muluc years, son of Itzamna and Ixchel.
Chaac
The god of Storms, enemy of Camazotz
Chaac Uayab Xoc
A fish god and the patron deity of fishermen.
Chicchan
A group of four Chorti rain gods who live in lakes and make rain clouds from the water in those lakes. Each of the rain gods was associated with a cardinal direction, similar to the Bacabs. Chiccan was also the name of a day in the Tzolkin cycle of the maya calendar.
Cit-Bolon-Tum
A god of medicine and healing.
Chimalmat
A giant who, by Vucub Caquix, was the mother of Cabrakan and Zipacna.
Chin
The main god of homossexual relationships and patron of homossexual prostitutes.
Cizin
A god of death who lived in Metnal.
Colel Cab
Goddess of the Bees
Colop U Uichkin
An eclipse deity.
Coyopa
The god of thunder and brother of Cakulha.
Cum Hau
A god of death and the underworld.
Ek Chuaj
the "black war chief" was the patron god of warriors and merchants
GI, GII, GIII
the gods I, II, and III, that is, the three patron deities (Triad) of the Palenque kingdom: GI a sea deity with a shell ear, GII a baby lightning god (god K), and GIII the jaguar god of fire, also patron of the number Seven
Gukumatz > Q'uq'umatz
Feathered Snake god and creator
Hachäk'yum
Worshipped by the Lacandon people as their patron deity.
Hobnil
Bacab of the east
Hozanek
Bacab of the south; the ek element in the name may refer to a star or constellation.
Hun-Batz
'One Howler Monkey', one of the two stepbrothers of the Hero Twins, one of the Howler Monkey Gods and patron of the arts.
Hun-Came
'One-Death', a lord of the underworld (Xibalba) who, along with Vucub-Came 'Seven-Death', killed Hun Hunahpu. They were defeated by the latter's sons, the Hero Twins.
Hun-Chowen
One of the two stepbrothers of the Hero Twins, one of the Howler Monkey Gods and patron of the arts.
Hun-Hunahpu
The father of the Maya Hero Twins Ixbalanque and Hun-Apu by a virgin. Beheaded in Xibalba, the underworld, by the rulers of Xibalba, Hun Came and Vucub Caquix. His sons avenged his death.
Hunab Ku
'Sole God', identical with Itzamna as the highest Yucatec god; or a more abstract upper god.
Hun-Ahpu
One of the Maya Hero Twins.
Hunahpu-Gutch
One of the thirteen creator gods who helped create humanity.
Hunahpu Utiu
One of the thirteen creator gods who helped create humanity.
Hun-Ixim
'One-Maize', a reading of the name glyph of the Classic Tonsured Maize God
Hun-nal-ye
A now obsolete reading of the name glyph of the Classic Tonsured Maize God
Huracan
'One-Leg', one of three lightning gods together called 'Heart of the Sky', and acting as world creators
Itzamna
The founder of the Maya culture, he taught his people to grow maize and cacao, as well as writing, calendars, and medicine. Once mentioned as the father of the Bacabs. Connected to Kinich Ahau and Hunab Ku.
Itzananohk'u
A patron god of the Lacandon people.
Ixbalanque > Xbalanque
Ixchel
Jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine.
Ixmucane
One of the thirteen creator gods who helped create humanity, grandmother of the Hero Twins. See Maya religion.
Ixpiyacoc
A creator god who helped create humanity. Twelve other gods were also involved in creating humanity. See Maya religion.
Ixtab
The goddess of suicide.
Ixazaluoh
The goddess of water and weaving.
Jacawitz
Mountain god of the K'iche'
Kauil (Kawil, K'awiil)
Assumed to have been the Classic name of god K (Bolon Dzacab). Title attested for Itzamna, Uaxac Yol, and Amaite Ku; family name; probably not meaning 'food', but 'powerful'.
Kinich Ahau
The solar deity.
Kinich Kakmo
A solar deity represented by a macaw, patron of Izamal (Yucatan).
Kukulkan
'Plumed Serpent', Yucatec name for a Mesoamerican deity and hero, called Q'uq'umatz among the Quiché Mayas and Quetzalcoatl among the Aztecs
Mam
A title of respect meaning "Grandfather" and applied to a number of different Maya deities including earth spirits, mountain spirits, and the four Bacabs.
Maximon
A god of travelers, merchants, medicine men/women, mischief and fertility, that was conflated with the Christian figure of Saint Simon and in modern times is part of the celebrations surrounding Holy Week
Nohochacyum
A creator-destroyer deity, the brother of the death god Kisin (or possibly another earthquake god also known as Kisin). He is the sworn enemy of the world serpent Hapikern and it is said that, in the end of days, he will destroy Hapikern by wrapping him around himself to smother him. In some versions of this story, life on earth is destroyed in the process. He is related, in some stories, to Usukan, Uyitzin, Yantho and Hapikern, all of whom wish human beings ill. Also the brother of Xamaniqinqu, the patron god of travelers and merchants
Oxlahuntiku
'Thirteen Gods', possibly sky gods, opposed to Bolontiku. Mentioned in an eschatological passage.
Qaholom
One of the second set of creator gods.
Q'uq'umatz
Feathered Snake god and creator. The depiction of the feathered serpent deity is present in other cultures of Mesoamerica. Q'uq'umatz of the K'iche' Maya is closely related to the god Kukulkan of Yucatán and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs.
Tepeu
A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity.
Tohil
Tohil was a patron deity of the K'iche'. There was a great temple to him at their ancient capital of Q'umarkaj.
Vatanchu
"Straight God", a mountain god of the Postclassic Manche Ch'ol.[3]
Votan
legendary ancestral deity, Chiapas.
Vucub-Caquix
Bird demon, severs arm of Hero Twin, wife is Chimalmat, sons are the demonic giants Cabrakan and Zipacna.
Xaman Ek
the god of travelers and merchants, who gave offerings to him on the side of roads while traveling.
Xbalanque
War Twin, one of the Hero Twins, companion to Hunahpu
Xcarruchan
A mountain god of the Postclassic Manche Ch'ol
Xmucane and Xpiayoc
A creator god couple which helped create the first humans. They are also the parents of Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu. They were called Grandmother of Day, Grandmother of Light and Bearer twice over, begetter twice over and given the titles midwife and matchmaker.
Yaluk
One of four Mopan 'Grandfathers' of the earth and chief lightning god.
Yopaat
Important rain god at Copán and Quiriguá in the southern Maya area.
Yum Kaax
God of the woods, of wild nature, and of the hunt; invoked before carving out a maize field from the wilderness.
Zac Cimi
Bacab of the west.
Zipacna
Demonic personification of the earth crust.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Maya_gods_and_supernatural_beings
No comments:
Post a Comment