Gagavitz
ancestor water Maya single tradition · 1
Gagavitz was an ancestor of the Kaqchikel Maya who was said to have thrown himself into Lake Atitlán and transformed himself into the deity Qʼuqʼumatz, thus raising a storm upon the water known today as Xocomil.
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- manifests as
- Qʼuqʼumatz
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“The Kaqchikel Maya were closely linked to the Kʼicheʼ and one of their ancestors, Gagavitz, was said to have thrown himself into Lake Atitlán and transformed himself into the deity, thus raising a storm upon the water known today as Xocomil.”
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