Do You Know About These Mythological Mayan God ?

The Maya Empire

The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D. The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were abandoned by A.D. 900, however, and since the 19th century scholars have debated what might have caused this dramatic decline.

1.Itzamna  

Itzamná was one of the most important deities of Mayan mythology. The ruler of the heavens and of day and night, he was often shown in Mayan art as a pleasant, toothless old man with a large nose. He was also identified as the son of the creator god Hunab Ku.

2.Chaac

Chaac was the Maya god of rain, lightning, and storms. He is often represented holding jade axes and snakes that he uses to throw at the clouds to produce rain. His actions assured the growth of maize and other crops in general as well as improving the natural cycles of life. He was also second in power.

3.Ah Mun

Ah Mun was the corn god and the god of agriculture. He was always represented as a youth, often with a corn ear headdress. He is sometimes shown in combat with the death god, Ah Puch, a skeleton-like being, patron of the sixth day-sign Cimi ("Death") and lord of the ninth hell.

4.Ah Puch

Ah-Puch is the Maya god of death, disaster, and darkness. His nickname is the Stinking One. Maybe because he smells like puke. He ruled over the ninth and lowest of the Maya underworlds. He was always malevolent.

5.Ek Chuah

Ek Chuah was the god of war, human sacrifice, and violent death. Not the kind of god you’d want to meet in person.

Ek Chuaj can either be depicted as black-and-white striped, as he is in the Dresden Codex, or entirely black, as he is in the Madrid Codex. Other distinguishing characteristics of Ek Chuaj are his mouth, which is encircled by a red-brown border, his large lower lip, and the presence of two curved lines to the right of his eye. Other depictions of Ek Chuaj show him as an old man with only a single tooth. This is the appearance he most regularly takes in the Madrid Codex. He has been depicted with a pack of goods usually carried by merchants, and his carrying of a burden is also indicated by the rope or tumpline tied around his head. He may also carry a spear and, in some instances, a scorpion's tail.

6. Acan

Acan is the Mayan god of wine and intoxication. He is identified with the local brew, belache, made from fermented honey to which the bark of the belache tree has been added.

7. IxChel

Moon goddess of midwifery, fertility and medicine.

Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture.In Taube's revised Schellhas-Zimmermann classification of codical deities, Ixchel corresponds to the Goddess O.

8. Xaman Ek

God of travelers.

The sub-nosed god of the North Star. He was ‘the guide of the merchants’, and the Maya compared his benevolence with that of the rain god Chac. Merchants used to offer incense to Xaman Ek at altars along roadsides.

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