moon goddess
deity sky Maya single tradition · 2
The Classic Maya moon goddess is identifiable through her crescent. She is invariably represented as a fertile young woman. Fertility and procreation are as important to an aged midwife as to a young mother, albeit in different ways.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Maya Hero Twins, rabbit in the moon, deer in the moon, Ix Chel
- consort of
- Cloud, devils, Kinich Ahau
- has aspect
- Goddess I
- allied with
- God D, Twins, aged god L, God A, Jaguar God of the Underworld, Maize God
- child of
- earth
- manifested by
- Maya maize god
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“In the past, it was common to take Ix Chel as the Yucatec name of the moon goddess because of a shared association with human fertility and procreation. The identification is questionable, however, since (1) colonial and ethnographical sources provide no direct evidence to show that Ixchel was a moon goddess”
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