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This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh.
A representation of the goddess can be found on each side of the 1503 CE Coronation Stone of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, alongside the glyphs for fire and water — traditional symbols of war. Historian Mary Miller even suggests that Tlaltecuhtli may be the face in the center of the famous Aztec Calendar Stone (Piedra del Sol), where she ...
Oxomoco, goddess of astrology and calendars associated with nighttime. Cihuātēteōh , the spirits of women who died in childbirth. Cihuateteo were likened to the spirits of male warriors who died in violent conflict, because childbirth was conceptually equivalent to the battles of Aztec culture.
The Great Goddess is thought to have been a goddess of the underworld, darkness, the earth, water, war, and possibly even creation itself. To the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, the jaguar, the owl, and especially the spider were considered creatures of darkness, often found in caves and during the night.
Tōnacācihuātl was the Central Mexican form of the creator goddess common to Mesoamerican religions. [4] According to the Codex Ríos , the History of the Mexicans as Told by Their Paintings , the Histoyre du Mechique , and the Florentine Codex , Tōnacācihuātl and her counterpart Tōnacātēcuhtli resided in Ōmeyōcān , the 13th, highest ...
This category is for articles relating to individual deities of the various pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures and civilizations. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Based on the Aztec "goddess of death," Las Catrinas are for decoration when on an ofrenda and are a great representation of how Mexicans view the afterlife and death in an animated skeleton ...
Maya mythology or Mayan mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles. The legends of the era have to be reconstructed from iconography. Other parts of Mayan oral tradition (such as animal tales, folk tales ...