Huracán (Hunraqan / U Kʼux Kaj)

In Kʼicheʼ Maya cosmogony Huracán (Hunraqan / U Kʼux Kaj) is one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity. In the narrative he dwelt in the windy mists above the floodwaters and, after the second generation of humans angered the gods, acted to bring about the Great Flood. During that episode he repeatedly invoked 'earth' until land rose from the seas, demonstrating both punitive and world-shaping functions.

Sources primarily identify Huracán through the epithet 'One‑Leg' (Hunraqan), which suggests identification with Classic/Postclassic Maya 'god K' iconography: a lightning deity depicted with one human leg and the other leg shaped like a serpent. Other consistent physical details are not attested in the cited material.

Huracán functions as a creator and transformer: participating in the three creation attempts, wielding elemental authority over wind, storm, and fire, and exercising lightning‑linked power (the 'One‑Leg'/god K association). He is portrayed as capable of producing catastrophic events (the Great Flood) and of calling forth dry land from the waters, combining destructive and restorative agency.