Maya moon goddess

Everywhere in Mesoamerica, including the Mayan area, she is specifically associated with water, be it wells, rainfall, or the rainy season.

However, the Popol Vuh hardly belongs to lunar mythology, and becoming Sun and Moon may well be a metonym for acquiring dominance over the sky and thus, metaphorically, political predominance.

True lunar mythology is first and foremost represented by the Qʼeqchiʼ myth of Sun and Moon first studied by Eric Thompson.

In all likelihood, this patriarchal punishment of a basic infraction of the rules of alliance represents the origin of menstruation, the 'evil blood' of a disobedient daughter colouring the water of sea and lake red, or sinking into the earth.

Subsequent episodes make the Moon Goddess cohabit with Sun's elder brother, Cloud, and with the devil in the shape of a king vulture, thus connecting her to rainfall and black sorcery.

[5] She is shown as a young woman holding her rabbit, and framed by the crescent of the waxing moon, which is her most important, identifying attribute.

Although, in oral tradition, the goddess is often treated as the consort of the Sun Deity, Classic iconography does not insist on this (see Kinich Ahau).