Huracan
Huracán ( "monopod" alternative names: Hunracán , Juracán , Yuracán , Yerucán , Yorocán , Hurakan , hurricane ) was in the mythology of the Mayan god of wind, storm and fire. He should also be equated with god K , Tohil , Bolon Tzacab and Kauil .
He was one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts to create humanity. After the first humans angered the gods , he caused the flood. He lived in the windy mist over the water and repeated the word "earth" until land rose from the seas.
He has only one leg (the other is transformed into a snake), an animal-shaped snout or long nose, and a smoking object such as a cigar or a torch holder or the iron of an ax that pierces a mirror on his forehead.
Huracan was known as Tojil to the Maya of the Quiche tribe . This god was also the patron saint of the worldly god-kings of the Maya. Huracan is handed down as a kind of living scepter in illuminated manuscripts and monuments carved in stone. Researchers associate the ax stuck in the forehead with thunderstorms.
His name is probably source of the words " hurricane " and " Hurricane " (English: Hurricane ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Zeuske : Cuba in the 21st century. Revolution and reform on the island of extremes. Rotbuch, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86789-151-6 . P. 61