Ixchel rainbow goddess of fertility. On this occasion, I want to share another Mayan legend that I recently read thanks to a trip to Cancun, Mexico, specifically Isla Mujeres. The Mayans tell that in the Overworld lived thirteen luminous gods and in the Underworld nine evil deities of darkness, all these gods coexisted with each other, Itzamná a young mortal god who was the inventor of books and writing, knew and fell in love with Ixchel, a goddess full of kindness and beauty and very skillful to weave, she lived with her sister Ixtab and with a group of maidens who accompanied her. Ixchel accepted that Itzamná would court her and little by little she fell in love with him without telling anyone. But when they were more in love, there appeared a god from the Underworld, Ah Puch, the god of death and approached the beautiful young woman, but she rejected it because it did not inspire confidence. By that rejection Ah Puch began to provoke It...
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