Itzamna and Ix-Chel, the supreme divine couple of the Yucatec Maya pantheon, were married and produced the Bacabs and other gods who populated the heavens and earth.
Kinich Ahau and Ix Chel form the paramount divine couple of Yucatec Maya religion, the sun lord paired with the moon goddess whose union mirrors the daily and monthly cycles of the sky.
⚠ Some scholars question whether Ix Chel is properly the moon goddess or a distinct earth/medicine deity conflated with Goddess I in colonial sources; Taube (1994) argues for separating Goddess I (young moon) from Goddess O (old Ix Chel).
On page 74 of the Dresden Codex, Ix-Chel pours water from a jar while Itzam Cab Ain simultaneously disgorges a flood from its mouth, the two figures jointly enacting the destruction of a world age.
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