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Ixchel is playable in Smite as a mage. She is the second Maya goddess to feature in Smite, after Awilix. In the 2006 movie Apocalypto, Ixchel is muttered by a Maya mother in a scene where she is forced to cross a river and her children are left behind. Ixchel features prominently In the 2018 action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Isla Mujeres (Spanish pronunciation: ['isla mu'xeɾes], Spanish for "Women Island", formally “Isla de Mujeres”) is an island where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet, about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) off the Yucatán Peninsula coast in the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
This pyramid is the largest single structure in San Gervasio. Due to certain architectural arrangements in the interior of the small room on the top, this structure may have been the temple of Ixchel described in 1552 by Francisco Lopez de Gomara, when he wrote of a temple "where they kept a very strange idol, very distinct from the others.
The island was sacred to Ixchel, the Maya Moon Goddess of fertility. [33] In the Mayan culture, all women were required to travel to the island at least once to worship Ixchel. She was the wife of Itzamna, the supreme Mayan lord of the skies of the night and of the day. The women asked Ixchel for fertility and for a joyful motherhood.
The Lodge at Chaa Creek is an eco-resort and 500-acre private nature reserve located in the Cayo District of Belize, Central America.Established as a small family farm in 1981, it has grown to be one of Belize’s most recognized resorts.
An important part of the Achi culture, textiles are made with the telar de cintura (backstrap loom) or palitos (sticks), and in the way of Ixchel. In the production, processes are followed such as: placing the thread in the loom, separating the thread, placing other threads to embroider, and forming the different figures.