Ac Yanto

God of White Men.

Acan

God of Wine.

Acat

God of tattooers.

Ah Bolom Tzacab

God of agriculture and the lord of the rain and thunder. Portrayed with a leaf in his nose. Also known as 'God K'.

Ah Cancum

God of hunting.

Ah Chun Caan

Teaching god of the city of Merida.

Ah Chuy Kak

War god.

Ah Ciliz

God of solar eclipses.

Ah Cun Can

A war god known as the Serpent Charmer.

Ah Cuxtal

God of birth.

Ah Hulneb

War god.

Ah Kin

Sun god and the controller of drought and disease.

Ah Kumix Uinicob

Attendant water gods.

Ah Mun

God of maize or corn.

Ah Muzencab

Gods of bees.

Ah Peku

God of thunder.

Ah Puch

God of death and ruler of Mitnal, the lowest and most terrible of the nine hells. Portrayed as a man with an owl's head or as a skeleton or bloated corpse. Also known as 'God A'.

Ah Tabai

A god of hunting.

Ah Uincir Dz'acab

God of healing.

Ah Uuc Ticab

Deity of the underworld.

Ahau-Kin

Called the 'lord of the sun face'. The god of the sun, he possessed two forms - one for the day and one at night. During the day he was a man with some jaguar features, but between sunset and sunrise he became the Jaguar God, a lord of the underworld who travelled from west to east through the lower regions.

Ahmakiq

God of agriculture who takes control of the wind when it threatens to destroy the crops.

Ahulane

A war god, known as the Archer.

Ajbit

One of thirteen deities who created human beings.

Akhushtal

Goddess of childbirth.

Alaghom Naom

Mother goddess of the Mayans. She is associated with the creation of the mind and of thought.

Alom

God of the sky and one of seven deities responsible for the creation of the world.

Bacabs

Giants who hold up the sky at the four cardinal points, they are: Cauac, Ix Kan and Mulac.

Backlum Chaam

God of male sexuality.

Balam

Mayan for 'jaguar', these deities are the protectors of individuals in their daily lives, and of the community from external menaces.

Bitol

One of the seven Mayan creator deities.

Bolontiku

A group of deities of the underworld.

Buluc Chabtan

God of war. He was the deity to whom humans were sacrificed. Also known as 'God F'.

Cabaguil

One of the deities who created the world. Known as the 'Heart of the Sky'.

Cakulha

Deiety of the lesser lightning bolts.

Camaxtli

God of Fate.

Camazotz

Bat-god, he was ultimately defeated by humans.

Caprakan

God of mountains and earthquakes.

Cauac

One of the four Bacabs, he is associated with the South and the color Red.

Chac

God of agriculture and rain. Later worshipped as one of the Bacabs, associated with the East. He is pictured with curling fangs, a long turned-up nose and tears streaming from his eyes.

Chac Uayab Xoc

God of fish. He had a dual nature - he provided a good catch for fishermen, but also devoured their drowned comrades.

Chamer

God of death, he was principally worshipped in Guatemala.

Chaob

Gods of the wind, associated with the cardinal directions.

Chibirias

Earth goddess.

Chiccan

Rain gods associated with the four cardinal directions. They create rain from the lakes in which they live.

Cit Bolon Tum

God of Medicine.

Cizin

God of death. He burns the dead in the Mayan underworld.

Colel Cab

Earth Goddess.

Colop U Uichkin

Sky God.

Coyopa

God of thunder.

Cum Hau

Death god.

Ekchuah

God of war, he was seen as firece and violent. He is also the god of merchants, and was often pictured carrying a bag of merchandise. Also known as 'God M'.

Ghanan

God of agriculture.

Gucumatz

Serpent god who brought civilization and agriculture to man.

Hacha'kyum

The Lacandon Maya god of real people. People who were not Lacandon Maya were not considered to be real.

Hun Came

Co-ruler of the Mayan Underworld.

Hun Hunahpu

A fertility god, he was so fertile that after being beheaded, his severed head was placed on a barren gourd which immediately began to bear fruit.

Hunab Ku

Supreme god and creator of the world. He was the chief deity of the Mayans.

Hurakan

Ancient god of wind and storm. He brings the displeasure of the gods to humans in the form of winds, storms and floods.

Itzamna

Founder of the Mayan culture and the state-god of the empire. He taught the people writing, heling and the use of the calendar. Also known as 'God D'.

Itzananohk`u

God of Lacandon.

Ix

One of the four Bacabs. He is associated with the West and the color black.

Ix Chebel Yax

See Ixchel.

Ixchel

Earth and moon goddess, she is the patron of weaving and pregnant women. Pictured with a smanke as a headband and a skirt embroidered with crossbones.

Ixtab

Goddess of the noose and the gallows, she is the patron of those who died by suicide. She is pictured as a woman hanging from a tree by a noose, here eyes closed and her body partly decomposed.

Ixzaluoh

Water goddess who invented weaving.

Kan

One of the Bacabs, he is associated with the East and the color yellow.

Kan-u-Uayeyab

Guardian of the cities.

Kan-xib-yui

God who recreated the earth afte the Bacabs destroyed it.

Kianto

The Lacandon god of foreigners and diseases.

K'in

Sun god.

Kinich Ahau

Sun god portrayed as a firebird or phoenix. Similar to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl.

Kukulcan

Supreme god, the master of the four elements and the god of resurrection and reincarnation. He is pictured as a feathered serpent, very similar to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl.

Mulac

One of the Bacabs, he is associated with the North and the color white.

Naum

God of the mind and thought.

Nohochacyum

God of creation.

Tlacolotl

God of evil.

Tohil

Fire god.

Tzakol

Sky god.

Votan

God of the drum.

Xaman Ek

God of the north star, he is the protector of merchants and travellers. Offerings were made to him on altars erected beside roads.

Yaluk

The most powerful of the lightning gods.

Yum Caax

God of maize and agriculture. He is the personification of male beauty. Also known as 'God E'.

Zotz

Bat-god of caves, he is the patron of the Zotzil Indians of Mexico.