Acat
Description: God of life.
Rules Over: Life, development of children in the womb.
Ahpuch
Description: Lord of death.
Rules Over: Human sacrifice, suicide by hanging, childbirth death and beheading.
Bacabs
Description: The Gods of the four winds and the four directions who held up the heavens in one legend. The chief Bacab was Hobnil, patron God of beekeepers.
Chac
Description: God of rain and vegetation who was popular and the most worshipped deity in the late Maya period. He rode on a serpent (symbol of rain) and carried a snake-shaped water bottle and torches.
Rules Over: Rain, vegetation, agriculture.
Cit Chac Coh
Description: War God whose soldiers danced in his temple and sacrificed a dog to his image.
Rules Over: War.
Ek Ahau
Description: War God. Also referred to as the Black Captain.
Rules Over: War.
Ek Chuah
Description: In one aspect Patron of merchants and cocoa planters and in another he is a God of war. He had a black scorpion tail. His followers were not allowed to get drunk at his festival as they were allowed in others.
Rules Over: Merchants, agriculture, War.
Gucumatz
Description: Lived in both heaven and hell and was associated with Hurukan. He was a shape-shifter.
Rules Over: Agriculture and civilization, shapeshifting.
Hun Pic Tok
Description: War God. Had a pyramid temple which was the most important in Izamal in Yucatan.
Rules Over: War.
Hunab Ku
Description: Supreme but remote and impersonal god.
Hurukan
Description: Extremely ancient God who created Earth, animals, fire and people.
Rules Over: Whirlwind, hurricanes, thunder, spiritual illumination.
Itzamna
Description: Sky god and also Father of the Gods and creator of humankind. Omnipotent and rather remote. Fisrt priest of the Mayan religion.
Rules Over: Healing, drawing, letters, crops, fertility, water, regeneration, medicine.
Ixchebelyax
Description: Goddess who invented painting and fabric color designing.
Rules Over: The visual arts.
Ixchel
Description: A goddess who is the consort of Itzamna.
Rules Over: Childbirth, medicine, the moon, pregnancy, floods, weaving, domestic arts.
Ixchup
Description: Wife of a Sun god named Ah Kinchil.
Ixtab
Description: Patroness of hunting and hanging.
Ixtubtun
Description: Protectress of all jade cutters.
Tkinich Kak Mo
Description: Sun god connected with the lighting of the sacrificial fire.
Kukulcan
Description: A form of Quetzalcoatl. Personification of the West.
Rules Over: Light, learning, culture, organization, order, laws, calendar.
Mam
Description: Earthquake god of Yucatan.
Rules Over: Earthquakes.
Masaya
Description: Goddess of volcanoes and divination. Pictured as a hideous old woman and required victims thrown into volcanic craters.
Rules over: Volcanoes and divination.
Nohochacyum
Description: God of creation who was also the defender from evil.
Rules Over: Protection, creation.
Xaman Ek
Description: The North Star.
Rules Over: Business, peace, plenty.
Yum Caax
Description: God of maize/corn.
Rules Over: Riches, husandry, fertility, growth, life, joy, good crops.
