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Goddess I of the codices, represented
the Moon, handcuffs of the Sun, associate with the procreation. Ixchel was the
main Mayan goddess, its luminous and symbolic integration sends to diverse sacred
nuclei of terrestrial and celestial order.
In the year of 1517, by cuaresma,
Francisco Hernandez of Cordova left Santiago of Cuba with 3 ships to rescue slaves
for the mines, since in Cuba he was diminished people: Others say that it left
to discover earth and that it took by pilot to Alaminos and it arrived at the
Island of Women to whom it put east name by the ídolos that found there of the
goddesses of that earth like Aixchel, Ixbunic, Ixbunieta, which were dressed the
waist for down and with the discovered chests.
In the sixth day of the month
zip (according to Landa) an important ceremony was celebrated dedicated to Ixchel
in its simbolismo as patrona of the medicine and the magic. A day before this
ceremony was carried out a dance called okot uil whose translation would be able
to be "dance of the moon", which evidence the identification selénica of
Ixchel.
One of the sacred offices attributed to Ixchel says that "For
the childbirths, went the wizards, who made believe their lies and put underneath
the bed ídolo of Ixchel, which they said that it was the goddess to make creatures"
In the sixth day of the month zip (according to Moor) was celebrated an important
ceremony dedicated to Ixchel in its symbolism like pattern of the medicine and
the magic. A day before this ceremony a called dance was made okot uil whose translation
could be "dance of the moon", which demonstrates the selenic identification of
Ixchel. In agreement with the indicated thing in the Motul dictionary it indicates
that Ixchel would mean "feminine God of the Rainbow" or "the goddess of the Rainbow".
Some cronistas see Ixchel in "the old figure of an angry one in the destruction
of the world by a deluge". It identifies like Goddess I like the "personification
of the water like destruction element, of the floods and rain torrents", indicates
in addition, that one imagined to him generally surrounded by symbols by death
and destruction, with a serpent twisting on his crossed head and bones embroiderings
in his skirt. But Ixchel seems also to have had a good side: He was consorte of
Itzamná, Gentleman of the Sky, and while his husband is like the God of the sun,
she seems to have been the Goddess of the moon. It was also pattern of the preened
and the inventor of the art to weave.
According to some historians, the
origin of this divinity is located between putunes on the basis of which it had
a great sanctuary in Cozumel, island that was under the power of this tribe, and
to the fact that the capital of putunes-acalanes was formerly Tixchel "the place
of Ixchel". One affirms that the goddess moon fuela first that tejio ' - it was
weaving when it attracted the attention of the sun and for that reason it is the
pattern of the office. But it is considered that Ix Chebel Yax "is the true pattern
of the weave since in his glifo takes a hank of cotton". Its investigation is
transformed on the lunar goddess indicating that the Mayans of low earth thought
that was the wife of the Sun, the patron of the women in general, the preñez,
the childbirth and the procreation, goddess of the medicine and the diseases,
was related to the lakes, the underground sources and waters (to which there would
be to add the sea).
Attributes of the Lunar Goddess between the Mayans
in the perspective of its main characteristics:
Celestial Dimension:
wife of the Sun, associated to the cardinal points, the Rainbow and rain.
Agrarian Dimension: the fertility of the plants, therefore of the
harvests is attributed to him.
Aquatic Dimension: associated
to the water in general, individual to the sea to the lakes and natural wells.
Human dimension: it is related to him to the sexual life, the
childbirth, the health and the death.
Specific attributes: Pattern
of the weave and the embroidering associated to the magic. |
