Maya mythology Maya or Mayan mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles. The myths of the era have to be reconstruct ...

, Chriakan-Ixmucane was a creator goddess formed out of four earlier creator

god In monotheistic thought, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)''The Oxford Companion to Philosophy'', Oxford University Press, 1995. God is typically ...

s. She is one of the thirteen creator deities who helped construct humanity. Other Maya stories speak of another goddess with many of Chirakan-Ixmicane's attributes, who is called Ixcuiname.

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