Kisin

deity underworld Lacandon single tradition · 1

Kisin is a death god in the oral tradition of the Lacandon people. He acts as the antipode of the Upper God in the creation of the world and of the human body and soul. This death god inhabits an Underworld that is also the world of the dead.

When

First attested
1970 CE
Attested period
1970 – 2020
Historical notes
Oral tradition recorded in the 1970s.

Relationships

syncretized with
Mictlāntēcutli

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“The skeletal death god Kisin plays a prominent role in Lacandon mythology, chiefly in the following tales: (i) The creation of the underworld by the upper god, involving the upper god's death at the hands of Kisin, his resurrection, and Kisin's confinement to the underworld”

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