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'.