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    Itzamná (Mayan pronunciation: [it͡samˈna]) is, in Maya mythology, an upper god and creator deity thought to reside in the sky. Itzamná is one of the most...
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    the north, associated with the color white, and the Muluc years. Son of Itzamna and Ixchel. God of rain, thunder, and lightning, wields an axe of lightning...
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    book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Smith 2003 p. 213 "Itzamná Mayan God - Spanish Academy Antiguena". Herskovits, Melville J. (1937)...
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    Maya mythology and religion Maize god and Itzamna Practices Bloodletting Death rituals Dedication rituals Pilgrimage Priesthood Sacrifice (Humans) Places...
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  • reconstructed from Late Classic and Postclassic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendrical system...
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    Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015. Itzamná, Ollantay (21 May 2015). "Guatemala: Indígenas y campesinos indignados...
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    patron deity of the deer (Sip). Additional scenes have the upper god, Itzamna, riding a deer and the hero brothers hunting a boar with the upper god...
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    Maya mythology and religion Maize god and Itzamna Practices Bloodletting Death rituals Dedication rituals Pilgrimage Priesthood Sacrifice (Humans) Places...
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    (Justicia spicigera)". ResearchGate. Guerrero-Beltrán, José A.; Baqueiro-Peña, Itzamná (6 September 2014). "Uses of Justicia spicigera in medicine and as a source...
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    a different colour. They also had a dual day-night/life-death aspect. Itzamna was the creator god, but he also embodied the cosmos, and was simultaneously...
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    executed. Kinich Ahau was apparently considered an aspect of the upper god, Itzamna. He may conceivably be related to the patron deity of Izamal, Kinich Kakmo...
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    throughout the country on the processes of creating artistic work The Itzamná National Art Prize is an award that the ENBA grants to notable national...
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  • 'Principal Bird Deity', an avian transformation of Itzamna. The solar affiliation of (Kinich Ahau) Itzamna is part of the argument for identifying the Popol...
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    The role model for the high priest is likely to have been the upper god Itzamna, first priest and inventor of the art of writing. The most general word...
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    Maya mythology and religion Maize god and Itzamna Practices Bloodletting Death rituals Dedication rituals Pilgrimage Priesthood Sacrifice (Humans) Places...
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    nearly leading to war between the two cantons. Figures of Kokopelli and Itzamna (as the Mayan tonsured maize god) in Pre-Columbian America often include...
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  • another vase painting shows a scene from the Popol Vuh with Dog asking Itzamná to return to Xibalba. In addition to paintings, artists created clay figurines...
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    Chief among the patron deities of the Classic priests was the upper god, Itzamna, first priest and first writer, still shown officiating in one of the pictures...
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    travel to the island at least once to worship Ixchel. She was the wife of Itzamna, the supreme Mayan lord of the skies of the night and of the day. The women...
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    the Bacab (apparently a unitary concept) was the son of the creator god, Itzamna, and of the goddess Ixchebelyax; he had once been humbled, killed, and...
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    related by Las Casas, according to which she, together with her spouse, Itzamna, had thirteen sons, two of whom created heaven and earth and all that belongs...
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    Mari pantheon: Kugu Jumo Māori pantheon: Tāne Mayan pantheon: Hunab Ku, Itzamna, Huracan, Kukulkan, Camazotz and Cabrakan. Mbuti pantheon: Khonvoum Meitei...
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    Maya mythology and religion Maize god and Itzamna Practices Bloodletting Death rituals Dedication rituals Pilgrimage Priesthood Sacrifice (Humans) Places...
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  • (Hindu) Indra and Indrani (Hindu) Isis and Osiris (Egyptian) Ixchel and Itzamna (Mayan) Izanami-no-Mikoto and Izanagi (Japanese) Kaliyan and Kalicchi (Southern...
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    Maya mythology and religion Maize god and Itzamna Practices Bloodletting Death rituals Dedication rituals Pilgrimage Priesthood Sacrifice (Humans) Places...
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    parallels, from the Japanese myth of Izanagi and Izanami, the Mayan myth of Itzamna and Ixchel, and the Indian myth of Savitri and Satyavan. While often compared...
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    Pyramid of the Magician. According to one account, a magician-god named Itzamna was single-handedly supposed to have erected the pyramid in one night,...
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    ornateness and high quality of decoration including monumental masks of the god Itzamná in the structures suggests that it was a center for the Río Bec region...
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  • Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015. Itzamná, Ollantay (21 May 2015). "Guatemala: Indígenas y campesinos indignados...
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  • was constructed from maize, the Mayans staple and sacred food. The deity Itzamna is credited as being the creator of the calendar along with creating writing...
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