Aztec & Mayan
Mythology

Ah Puch
In Maya mythology, Ah Puch is the god of death.

Ahau Chamahez
In Maya mythology, Ahau Chamahez was one of two gods of medicine.

Ahmakiq
In Maya mythology, Ahmakiq is a god of agriculture. He locks up the wind when it threatens to destroy the crops.

Akhushtal
In Maya mythology, Akhushtal is the goddess of childbirth.

Alaghom-Naom
In Mayan mythology, Alaghom-Naom was goddess of the earth, abundance and wisdom. She who fosters forth conscious awareness and thought.

Bacabs
In Maya mythology, the bacabs are the canopic gods. They stand at the four corners of the world supporting the heavens.

Centeotl
In Aztec mythology, Centeotl was the corn god. He was a son of Tlazolteotl and the husband of Xochiquetzal.

Chalchiuhtlicue
In Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue was the goddess of running water. She was the sister of Tlaloc.

Chantico
In Aztec mythology, Chantico was the goddess of hearth fires and volcanoes.

Chicomecoatl
In Aztec mythology, Chicomecoatl was the goddess of corn and fertility.

Cihuacoatl
In Aztec mythology, Cihuacoatl was a goddess whose roaring signalled war.

Cit Bolon Tum
In Maya mythology, Cit Bolon Tum was a god of medicine.

Coyolxauhqui
In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui was the beautiful daughter of Coatlicue. She got her name (which means golden bells) because she wore cheek-ornaments of tiny golden bells.

Ehecatl
In Aztec mythology, Ehecatl was the god of wind. He fell in love with a beautiful mortal maiden called Mayahuel who he caught up in his embrace, laid her on the ground and made love to her. Unfortunately, making love to a god was too much for Mayahuel who subsequently died as a result. Ehecatl buried her and a tree grew from her grave with branches like outstretched arms. Everafter Ehecatl searched the earth for another mortal as beautiful as Mayahuel and mortals heard him sighing as the wind in the trees.

Ekahau
In Maya mythology, Ekahau is the god of travellers and merchants.

Huitzilopochtli
In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli was the son of Coatlicue and a god of war and the sun.

Huixtocihuatl
In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl is the goddess of salt.

Itzpapalotl
In Aztec mythology, Itzpapalotl is a dragon-like goddess of agriculture.

Ix Chel
In Maya mythology, Ix Chel is the mother of deities, she is a wise, gentle, lustrous and radiant goddess of the moon and water. The Eagle Woman.

Ixtab
In Maya mythology, Ixtab is the goddess of the hanged and of suicide. She spent her time dangling from the sky with a noose round her neck - except when she came to earth to gather the souls of suicides and transport them into paradise.

Ixtlilton
In Aztec mythology, Ixtlilton was the god of healing (medicine), feasting and games. If the right prayers and sacrifices were made , he would bring cups of healing drink to cure the sick. He was especially generous to children.

Iztaccihuatl
In Aztec mythology, Iztaccihuatl was a mother goddess the white mountains. She who provides animal-spirit guardians.

Kan-u-Uayeyab
In Maya mythology, Kan-u-Uayeyab was the god who guarded cities.

Kinich Kakmo
In Maya mythology, Kinich Kakmo is the sun god symbolised by the Macaw.

Kisin
In Maya mythology, Kisin is the evil earthquake spirit. He lives beneath the earth in a purgatory where all souls except those of soldiers killed in battle and women who died in childbirth spend some time. Suicides are doomed to his realm for eternity.

Kukucan
In Maya mythology, Kukucan is the wind god.

Macuilxochitl
In Aztec mythology, Macuilxochitl was the god of music and dance.

Mayahuel
In Aztec mythology, Mayahuel was a goddess of maguey.

Metztli
In Aztec mythology, Metztli was the moon god.

Mictlan
In Aztec mythology, Mictlan was the underworld. It was the home of all the dead except warriors and women who died in labour.

Mictlantecuhtli
In Aztec mythology, Mictlantecuhtli was the god of Mictlan and the dead.

Mitnal
In Maya mythology, Mitnal was the underworld hell where the wicked were tortured.

Nacon
In Maya mythology, Nacon was the god of war.

Ometecuhtli
In Aztec mythology, Ometecuhtli was the god of duality.

Patecatl
In Aztec mythology, Patecatl was the god of medicine.

Paynal
In Aztec mythology, Paynal was the messenger to Huitzilopochtli.

Quetzalcoati
In Aztec and Toltec mythology, Quetzalcoati was the feathered serpant god.

Quetzalcoatl
In ancient Mexican mythology, Quetzalcoatl was the god of the air. He presided over commerce, and was said to have predicted the coming of the Spaniards.

Teoyaomqui
In Aztec mythology, Teoyaomqui is the god of dead warriors.

Tlaloc
In Aztec mythology, Tlaloc is the great rain and fertility god. He lived at Tlalocan with the corn goddesses.

Tlalocan
In Aztec mythology, Tlalocan was the paradise of Tlaloc. It was where the souls of those killed by lightning, dropsy, skin diseases and those sacrificed to Tlaloc went.

Tlazolteotl
In Aztec mythology, Tlazolteotl was the goddess of licentiousness.

Tonacatecuhtli
In Aztec mythology, Tonacatecuhtli was the creator and provider of food.

Tonatiuh
In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh was a sun-god, the eagle and heavenly warrior.

Xilonen
In Aztec mythology, Xilonen was the goddess of young maize. She was a wife of Tezcatlipoca.

Xipe Totec
In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec was the god of seedtime.

Xochipilli
In Aztec mythology, Xochipilli was the god of feasting and young maize.

Yacatecuhtli
In Aztec mythology, Yacatecuhtli was the god of merchant adventurers.

Yaxche
In Maya mythology, Yaxche is the tree of heaven under which good souls rejoice.

Yum Kaax
In Maya mythology, Yum Kaax is the maize god.