Hachäkyum
Lacandon · deity · Lacandon traditional religion; continuing · deity
Hachäkyum, 'Our True Lord', is the principal creator and high god of the living Lacandon pantheon. Modelling the earth and the forest and shaping the first Hach Winik ('true people') from clay or river sand, he also set the stars in the sky, said to be flowers he scattered, and dwells at the ruined city the Lacandon call Yaxchilan, where his stone images stand. He is the chief recipient of copal incense burned in the anthropomorphic god-pots. In some narratives he decreed human mortality once the first people had multiplied. He is widely also called Nohoch Äkyum, 'Our Great Lord'.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- creation
- sky
- kingship
Powers
- shape the first people
- set the stars in the sky
- decree human mortality
Epithets
- Nohoch Äkyum
Relations
- parent: Kʼakʼoch
- sibling: Sukunkyum
- sibling: Äkyantho'
- spouse: Xkʼaleʼox
- enemy: Kisin
- ally: Äkʼinchob
- child: Kʼayum