
Ixchel
c. 200 CE – 1500 CEattested
Cozumel
- Maya
Maya goddess of midwifery, weaving and the moon, whose island shrine on Cozumel drew pilgrims across open water by canoe. Depicted both as a young weaver and as an old woman pouring out floods.
Known for
- midwifery and weaving
- the pilgrimage to Cozumel
- young and aged at once
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.