Thompson identified Chac Xib Chac as the eastern directional aspect of Chaac, the red-painted storm bringer who carries rain from the rising sun's quarter, his name literally meaning 'Great Red Chaac.'
⚠ Schele, Freidel, and Stuart argue GI of the Palenque Triad is a distinct solar-aquatic deity, not the eastern Chaac. Thompson (1970) treats them as identical.
Ek Xib Chaac, the Black Chaac, is the western directional aspect of Chaac, bringing storms from the west and associated with the color black and the descending sun.
Kan Xib Chaac, the Yellow Chaac, is the southern directional aspect of Chaac, bringing storms from the south and associated with the color yellow in the Maya four-direction cosmological system.
Sac Xib Chaac, the White Chaac, is the northern directional aspect of Chaac, bringing storms from the north and associated with the color white in the Maya four-direction cosmological system.
Tlaloc and Chaac are the Aztec and Maya rain gods, cognate figures in the broader Mesoamerican rain deity tradition with shared goggle-eye iconography tracing back to Teotihuacan.
In the Dresden Codex flood scene, Chaac appears wielding weapons amid the deluge unleashed when Itzam Cab Ain disgorges torrential waters from its mouth to destroy a world age.
In times of drought the Maya cast human messengers alive into the Sacred Cenote to petition Chaac for rain, believing the victims passed through the water to deliver their appeals directly to the rain god.
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