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Ah Muzen Cab is a Melipona bee. [1] The deity is the creator of the Earth and Universe in the fourth and final cycle of the cosmos, according to Maya peoples in the Yucatán Peninsula. Ah Muzen Cab is the protector of M. beecheii and goes to the underworld to free trapped life forces. The bee god also unifies Ah Uuk Cheknal and Uuk Taz Kab. [1]
This is a list of gods and supernatural beings from the Aztec culture, its religion and mythology. Many of these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún), the Codex Borgia (Stefano Borgia), and the informants). They are all divided into gods and goddesses, in sections.
Annotated image of Xipe Totec sculpture. In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (/ ˈ ʃ iː p ə ˈ t oʊ t ɛ k /; Classical Nahuatl: Xīpe Totēc [ˈʃiːpe ˈtoteːk(ʷ)]) or Xipetotec [3] ("Our Lord the Flayed One") [4] was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare, the seasons, [5] and the earth. [6]
Huastec statue of Ometochtli. Rabbit-shaped vessel probably used for containing pulque, the rabbit, and the rabbit deity Ome Tochtli, was a symbol of pulque. In Aztec mythology, Ometochtli (pronounced [oːmetoːtʃtɬi]) is the collective or generic name of various individual deities and supernatural figures associated with pulque (octli), [1] an alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented ...
The symbols linked the murals to indigenous Tepoztlán’s patron god: Tepoztēcatl, experts said. According to local legend, Tepoztēcatl is an Aztec god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage made ...
Tonacacíhuatl and Tonacatecuhtli as depicted in the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer [1] Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl described in the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer. Ōmeteōtl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːmeˈteoːt͡ɬ] ⓘ) ("Two-God") is a name used to refer to the pair of Aztec deities Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, [2] also known as Tōnacātēcuhtli and Tonacacihuatl. [3]
The Kalahari Desert's San people tell of a bee that carried a mantis across a river. The exhausted bee left the mantis on a floating flower but planted a seed in the mantis's body before it died. The seed grew to become the first human. [5] In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand. [6]
A "bee invasion" halted play on a court at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in California on Thursday, and video showed the insects swarming over a camera lens and buzzing around players.