Bacab (Mayan pronunciation: [ɓaˈkaɓ]) is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the Earth and its water...
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interior of the earth and of thunder, sky-carrier, sometimes depicted as four Bacabs that each represent the directions. The jaguar god of the underworld. Also...
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The name Hun Ahau ("One Lord") appears frequently in the Ritual of the Bacabs, but is never specified as a death god. Ah Puch, though often mentioned...
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Itzamna (section Father of Bacab)
generally, Itzamná was the creator of humankind, and also the father of Bacab (Francisco Hernández), a fourfold deity of the interior of the Earth. In...
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Ritual of the Bacabs is the name given to a manuscript from the Yucatán containing shamanistic incantations written in the Yucatec Maya language. The manuscript...
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from Lemmy to John the Bog, Supernova and Sue Bennett. zac bacab, tec bacab and bac bacab expounds upon religious and cosmological myths and sciences...
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early-colonial (16th-century) period, such as the Popol Vuh, the Ritual of the Bacabs, and (at least in part) the various Chilam Balam books Secondary sources...
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Heavenly Kings (四天王) are featured as a boss fight. Religion portal Anemoi Bacab Four Dwarves (Norse mythology) Four Holy Beasts Four Living Creatures Four...
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Sangkara (Northwest) Rudra (Southwest) Hinduism portal Religion portal Bacab Bhairava Diggaja Dikpali Four Heavenly Kings Four sons of Horus Mahavidya...
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Ah Puch means to melt. He is considered the brother of Nohochacyum and Bacabs. According to Lacandon myth when a person dies Cizin burns the soul on his...
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