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In Maya mythology, Ah Kinchil is the sun god.
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In Maya mythology, Ah Puch is the god of death.
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In Maya mythology, Ahau Chamahez was one of two gods of medicine.
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In Maya mythology, Ahmakiq is a god of agriculture. He locks up the wind when it threatens to destroy the crops.
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In Maya mythology, Akhushtal is the goddess of childbirth.
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In Mayan mythology, Alaghom-Naom was goddess of the earth, abundance and wisdom. She who fosters forth conscious awareness and thought.
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In Maya mythology, the bacabs are the canopic gods. They stand at the four corners of the world supporting the heavens on upraised arms. Each of the Bacabs presided over one of the four years of the four year cycle.
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In Aztec mythology, Centeotl was the corn god. He was a son of Tlazolteotl and the husband of Chicomecoatl.
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In Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue was the goddess of running water. She was the sister or wife (depending upon myth) of Tlaloc.
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In Aztec mythology, Chantico was the goddess of hearth fires and volcanoes.
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In Aztec mythology, Chicomecoatl or Xilonen was the goddess of corn and fertility. She was depicted as the wife of Centeotl.
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In Aztec mythology, Cihuacoatl was a goddess whose roaring signalled war.
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In Maya mythology, Cit Bolon Tum was a god of medicine.
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In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui was the beautiful daughter of Coatlicue. She got her name (which means golden bells) because she wore cheek-ornaments of tiny golden bells.
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In Aztec mythology, Ehecatl was the god of wind. He fell in love with a beautiful mortal maiden called Mayahuel who he caught up in his embrace, laid her on the ground and made love to her. Unfortunately, making love to a god was too much for Mayahuel who subsequently died as a result.
Ehecatl buried her and a tree grew from her grave with branches like outstretched arms. Everafter
Ehecatl searched the earth for another mortal as beautiful as Mayahuel and mortals heard him sighing as the wind in the trees.
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In Maya mythology, Ekahau is the god of travellers and merchants.
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In Maya mythology, Huehuetlotl is the god of fire.
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In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli was the son of Coatlicue and a god of war and the sun.
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In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl is the goddess of salt water, salt, the salters guild and of dissolute women.
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In Aztec mythology, Itzpapalotl is a dragon-like goddess of agriculture.
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In Maya mythology, Ix Chel is the mother of deities, she is a wise, gentle, lustrous and radiant goddess of the moon and water. The Eagle Woman.
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In Maya mythology, Ixtab is the goddess of the hanged and of suicide. She spent her time dangling from the sky with a noose round her neck - except when she came to earth to gather the souls of suicides and transport them into paradise.
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In Aztec mythology, Ixtlilton was the god of healing (medicine), feasting and games. If the right prayers and sacrifices were made , he would bring cups of healing drink to cure the sick. He was especially generous to children.
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In Aztec mythology, Iztaccihuatl was a mother goddess the white mountains. She who provides animal- spirit guardians.
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In Maya mythology, Kan-u-Uayeyab was the god who guarded cities.
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In Maya mythology, Kinich Kakmo is the sun god symbolised by the Macaw.
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In Maya mythology, Kisin is the evil earthquake spirit. He lives beneath the earth in a purgatory where all souls except those of soldiers killed in battle and women who died in childbirth spend some time. Suicides are doomed to his realm for eternity.
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In Maya mythology, Kukucan is the wind god.
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In Maya mythology, Kukulcan (the planet Venus) was a god of warfare.
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In Aztec mythology, Macuilxochitl was the god of music and dance.
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In Aztec mythology, Mayahuel was a goddess of maguey.
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In Aztec mythology, Metztli was the moon god.
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In Aztec mythology, Mictlan was the underworld. It was the home of all the dead except warriors and women who died in labour.
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In Aztec mythology, Mictlantecuhtli was the god of Mictlan and the dead.
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In Maya mythology, Mitnal was the underworld hell where the wicked were tortured.
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In Maya mythology, Muluc was the greatest of the four Bacabs.
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In Maya mythology, Nacon was the god of war.
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In Aztec mythology, Ometecuhtli was the god of duality. He was the first principal on which all existence depended.
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In Aztec mythology, Patecatl was the god of medicine.
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In Aztec mythology, Paynal was the messenger to Huitzilopochtli.
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In Aztec and Toltec mythology, Quetzalcoati was the feathered serpant god.
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In ancient Mexican mythology, Quetzalcoatl was the god of the air. He presided over commerce, and was said to have predicted the coming of the Spaniards.
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In Aztec mythology, Teoyaomqui is the god of dead warriors.
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In Aztec mythology, Tezcatlipoca was the principal god. He was at first the god of life, and was represented bearing darts and a polished metal shield.
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In Aztec mythology, Tlaloc is the great rain and fertility god. He lived at Tlalocan with the corn goddesses.
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In Aztec mythology, Tlalocan was the paradise of Tlaloc. It was where the souls of those killed by lightning, dropsy, skin diseases and those sacrificed to Tlaloc went.
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In Aztec mythology, Tlazolteotl was the goddess of licentiousness.
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In Aztec mythology, Tonacatecuhtli was the creator and provider of food.
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In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh was a sun-god, the eagle and heavenly warrior.
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In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec was the god of spring (seedtime) and of new vegetation and the patron of goldsmiths. He was represented as wearing the sking of a human sacrificial victim, this skin representing the skin of new growth that covered the earth in spring.
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In Aztec mythology, Xochipilli was the god of feasting and young maize.
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In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal was the goddess of beauty, love and household arts. Originally the wife of Tlaloc, she was abducted by Tezcatlipoca and enthroned as the goddess of love.
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In Aztec mythology, Yacatecuhtli was the god of merchant adventurers.
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In Maya mythology, Yaxche is the tree of heaven under which good souls rejoice.
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In Maya mythology, Yum Kaax is the maize god.
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