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.
Camazotz
Camazotz is a bat-associated spirit in Late Post‑Classic Kʼicheʼ Maya narrative (notably the Popol Vuh) and a recurring bat motif in Classic Maya iconography. In the Popol Vuh Camazotz appears as bat-like beings serving the lords of Xibalba who attack the Hero Twins; Classic imagery links leaf‑nosed bats to night, death, disease, and nahual (way‑spirit) functions.
Hun Hunahpu
Hun Hunahpu is a mythic ancestral figure in the Kʼicheʼ Maya Popol Vuh narrative: one of two brothers (with Vucub‑Hunahpu) who were lured into Xibalba, sacrificed, and whose severed head was suspended in a trophy tree and changed to a calabash. The calabash-head's juice impregnates Xquic, producing the Hero Twins (Hunahpu and Xbalanque); later the Twins recover their fathers' remains but cannot fully resuscitate them. Some scholars compare Hun Hunahpu with the Classic-period Tonsured Maize God, though this identification is debated in the sources provided.
Jacawitz
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Maya Hero Twins (Hunahpu and Xbalanque)
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Hungry Tiger
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Hungry ghost (E gui)
Listed in a compiled catalogue of supernatural beings from Chinese folk culture and contemporary literature, 'hungry ghost (E gui)' appears as an itemized class of supernatural being in the provided sources. The supplied materials contain the name but do not give further descriptive or ritual detail.
Huodou
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Huoshu (火鼠)
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Hursag
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Hutena and Hutellura
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Huītzilōpōchtli
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Hušbišag
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