| LC control no. | no2023036862 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ixchel (Maya deity) |
| Variant(s) | Ixchel (Mayan deity) Ix Chel (Maya deity) Ix Chel (Mayan deity) Chak Chel (Maya deity) Chak Chel (Mayan deity) |
| Found in | Havemeyer, Janie. Call me Ixchel, 2014: title page (Mayan goddess of the Moon) Britannica online, March 31, 2023 (Ixchel, also spelled Ix Chel, Mayan moon goddess. Ixchel was the patroness of womanly crafts but was often depicted as an evil old woman and had unfavorable aspects. She may have been a manifestation of the god Itzamná) Wikipedia, March 31, 2023 (Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture. In a similar parallel, she corresponds, to Toci Yoalticitl "Our Grandmother the Nocturnal Physician", an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath, and is related to another Aztec goddess invoked at birth, viz. Cihuacoatl (or Ilamatecuhtli)) Maya goddess Ixchel, via Yucatán today website, March 31, 2023 (Ixchel (pronounced Ishchel) was the Maya goddess of the moon, love, gestation, medicine, and the textile arts. She was the wife of the sun god Ak Kin, and was often represented accompanied by a rabbit; in hieroglyphics her name appears as Chak Chel, meaning "large rainbow". In the "Chilam Balam," a collection of books that tells about the history of the Maya civilization, her name appears as Ixchel, which means "rainbow woman") <https://yucatantoday.com/en/maya-goddess-ixchel/> Ixchel Mayan goddess, via Antigueña Spanish Academy website, March 31, 2023 (Ixchel represents women and femininity in the Mayan culture. Also known as the Goddess of the Moon, Ixchel according to Mayan mythology is the goddess of love, pregnancy, water, textile work and even medicine) <https://www.spanishacademyantiguena.com/blog/2021/07/10/ixchel-mayan-goddess/> |
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