Hachäkyum
Lacandon · deity · Lacandon traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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
- parent: KʼakʼochRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Children
Domains
- creation
- sky
- kingship
Powers
- shape the first people
- set the stars in the sky
- decree human mortality
Epithets
- Nohoch Äkyum — Our Great LordAlfred M. Tozzer, A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones (Macmillan, 1907) (primary)
Relations
- parent: KʼakʼochRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
- sibling: SukunkyumR. Jon McGee, Life, Ritual, and Religion among the Lacandon Maya (Wadsworth, 1990) (primary)
- sibling: Äkyantho'Robert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
- spouse: XkʼaleʼoxRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
- enemy: KisinR. Jon McGee, Life, Ritual, and Religion among the Lacandon Maya (Wadsworth, 1990) (primary)
- ally: ÄkʼinchobReckoned his son-in-law and steward of the maize.Didier Boremanse, Hach Winik: The Lacandon Maya of Chiapas (IMS, 1998) (primary)
- child: KʼayumRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Sources
- Hachäkyum, 'Our True Lord', is the principal creator god who shaped the first people and set the stars, dwelling at Yaxchilan.: Alfred M. Tozzer, A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones (Macmillan, New York, 1907) (primary); Robert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary); R. Jon McGee, Life, Ritual, and Religion among the Lacandon Maya (Wadsworth, 1990) (primary)