Kʼakʼoch
Lacandon · deity · Lacandon traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Kʼakʼoch is the remote primordial creator of the northern Lacandon cosmogony. Existing before the present world, he brought into being the first sun and the great flower from whose unfolding the earth and the other gods arose, and he fashioned Hachäkyum, to whom the ongoing governance of the world then passed. Having set creation in motion, Kʼakʼoch withdrew and receives no cult, standing above the deities who accept offerings. Sources differ on whether he is a single father-figure or a more diffuse creative principle.
Children
Domains
- creation
- cosmogony
Powers
- engender the gods
- make the first sun
Epithets
- Kʼakʼoch — the remote creatorRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Relations
- child: HachäkyumRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
- child: SukunkyumRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
- child: Äkyantho'Robert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Sources
- Kʼakʼoch is the primordial creator who made the first sun and the earth-flower and fashioned Hachäkyum, then withdrew.: Robert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (Colección Científica 12, INAH, Mexico City, 1974) (primary); Didier Boremanse, Contes et mythologie des indiens lacandons (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1986) (primary)