Itzamna
c. 200 BCE – 1500 CEattested
Petén, Maya lowlands
- Maya
Maya creator and patron of writing, medicine and the calendar, often drawn as an aged scribe. He is credited with giving people the glyphs, which makes him a god of the record itself.
Known for
- inventor of writing
- the aged creator
- patron of scribes and healers
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.