The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh.
The old god of the interior of the earth and of thunder, sky-carrier, sometimes depicted as four Bacabs that each represent the directions.
"Nine Strides", mentioned in the Books of Chilam Balam and in Classic inscriptions; functions unknown.
A god of medicine and healing A giant who was, by Vucub Caquix, the mother of Cabrakan and Zipacna.
Ek Chuaj, the "black war chief" was the patron god of warriors and merchants.
He was typically represented with a dangling lower lip, a long nose, sometimes a scorpion’s tail, and particularly in the Madrid codex he is painted all black.
Gukumatz of the Kʼicheʼ Maya is closely related to the god Kukulkan of Yucatán and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztec.
"One-Death", a lord of the underworld (Xibalba) who, along with Vucub-Came "Seven-Death", killed Hun Hunahpu.
One of the two stepbrothers of the Hero Twins, one of the Howler Monkey Gods and patron of the arts.
"One-Maize", a reading of the name glyph of the Classic Period Tonsured Maize God A now-obsolete reading of the name glyph of the Classic Period Tonsured Maize God "One-Leg", one of three lightning gods together called "Heart of the Sky", and acting as world creators.
Title attested for Itzamna, Uaxac Yol, and Amaite Ku; family name; probably not meaning "food", but "powerful".
Although heavily Mexicanised, Kukulkan has his origins among the Maya of the Classic Period, when he was known as Waxaklahun Ubah Kan (/waʃaklaˈχuːn uːˈɓaχ kän/), the War Serpent, and he has been identified as the Postclassic version of the Vision Serpent of Classic Maya art.
A god of travelers, merchants, medicine men/women, mischief and fertility, later conflated with Saint Simon and in modern times part of the celebrations surrounding Holy Week.
He is related, in some stories, to Usukan, Uyitzin, Yantho and Hapikern, all of whom wish ill to human beings.
Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ Maya is closely related to the god Kukulkan of Yucatán and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs.
[2] A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity.
At a party held by all birds, he was humiliated by some humans, and as revenge, he would visit them announcing their deaths.
A bird being, whose wife is Chimalmat and whose sons are the demonic giants Cabrakan and Zipacna.
An important rain god at Copán and Quiriguá in the southern Maya area.
[5] God of the woods, of wild nature, and of the hunt; invoked before carving out a maize field from the wilderness.