Mayan and Aztec Gods

Aztec and Mayan Gods

Ab Kin Xac - The Mayan god of poetry and war.

Acat - The Mayan god of life who was responsible for the development of children in the womb.

Ahau Chamahez - The Mayan god of health and medicine.

Ah Kinchil - Mayan sun god.

Ah Puch - The Mayan god of death

Ahpuc - The Mayan god of death associated with human sacrifice, beheading, death by hanging, and suicide.

Ahulane - The Mayan war god sometimes reffered to as "The Archer."

Atl - The Aztec god of water.

Chac - The Aztec and Mayan vegetation and rain god. He is also the lord of thunder, lightening, wind, and fertility.

Cinteotl - The Aztec god of corn who took over the place of Chicomecoatl. He was always protected by water gods; also, he had female forms.

Cit Chaco Co - A Mayan war god.

Ek Ahau - Another Mayan war god.

Ek Chuah - The Mayan scorpian god often called God M. He is the patron god of traveling merchants and caco planters and a god of war. He most concerned himself with those who died in battle. Participants in hes festival were not allowed to get drunk, this was unlike other festivals.

Gucumatz - The Mayan god of agriculture, farming, domestic matters, and civilisation and lived in both heaven and hell at once.

Hachiman - A historical figure in Mayan history who was elevated to the status of god after his death. He is now a god of courage, bravery, honour, war, battle, and personal success.

Haya-Ji - The Mayan god of the winds, whirlwinds and can be invoked for air elemental magic.

Huehuetotl - The Aztec god of fire and patron god of kings and warriors. Often he is depicted as a crouched old man with a bowl of burning incense sitting on his head.

Huemac - The Aztec god of earthquakes.

Huitzilopochtli - The national god of the Aztecs who symbolises the sun, storms, death, war, soldiers, young men, and safe journeys.

Hun Pic Tok - A Mayan war god.

Hunab Ku - The supreme god of the Aztecs who was impersonal to the followers.

Hurukan - The ancient Mayan creator god who make the earth, fire, mankind, and animals; he symbolises spiritual enlightenment, fire, disasters, whirlwinds, hurricanes, and thunder.

Itazmna - The Mayan sky god and father of the gods, creator of humankind and lord of day and night. He was remote, impresonal and omnipotent and personified the rising sun, light, east, life, and knowledge. His sign was that of the read hand and depicted as a cross-eyed, toothless old man with a lizard body. His animal totems were the lizard and jaguar and was the founder of the Mayan religion. He was invoked for art, drawing, letters, medicine, healing, water, regeneration, letters, and fertility.

Kukulcan - The Mayan god of light, culture, organisation and order, calendar, laws, and learning.

Mam - The Mayan god of earthquakes.

Mictlantecuhtli - The Aztec lord of the land of the dead depicted as a red skeleton. He is the husband of Mictlantecihuatl; together they care for the dead.

Mixcoatl - The Aztec god of hunting, weapons, war, and striking from afar. It was believe his human offereing were said to become the stars after they were sacrificed.

Nohochacym - The Mayan creator god and defender from evil.

Omacatl - The Aztec god of festivity, happiness, and joy. It was believed if guests misbehaved at festivals the host could invoke Omacatl and make the guests ill.

Quetzalcoatl - The Aztec god of life breath, wind, and sea breezes. He was a creator god and was identififed with the planet Venus. He was a "good" god because he only required one sacrifice a year.

Tlaloc - The Aztec god of growth who made the plants sprout. This god required constant human sacrifice making him very hard to please. He was also associated with water, rain, hail, thunder, mountains, and fertility and called Tlaloque.

Tuoni - The Aztec god of the underworld and death.

Xipe Totec - The Aztec god of the west, blacksmiths, and agriculture.

Xochipilli - The Aztec god of corn.

Xaman Ek - The Mayan god of business, economy, merchants, and trade.

Xolotl - The Aztec god of bad luck and the underworld who brought humankind and the element of fire to the surface.

Yacatechutli - The Aztec god of merchants and traders.

Yum Caax - The Mayan god of joy, happiness, husbandry, life, birth, good crops, maize, and wealth

Zip - The Mayan god of the hunt and protector of the deer. The deer created the vagina of the moon goddess by stepping on her abdomen and she was then able to bear children of the sun god. Zip deceieved hunters into shooting igunas instead of deers. To gain Zip's favour results in a good hunt (done thourgh worship).