Comizahual - also Comizahuatl, Comizagual or Cozumel, the 'flying jaguar' or 'tiger that flies' - is the great culture-heroine of the western Lenca, the white-skinned, white-haired sorceress-queen of the province of Cerquín. The legend, first set down by the Franciscan chronicler Juan de Torquemada in his Monarquía Indiana (1615) and repeated by Domingo Juarros in the early nineteenth century, places her arrival roughly two centuries before the Spanish conquest. Beautiful, wise and warlike, she worked wonders by magic, was associated with the jaguar in her zoomorphic aspect, and is credited with founding a religion at Cerquín - in memory of which the Lenca worshipped the Great Father Itanipuca and the Great Mother Ilanguipuca. Having divided her realm among her sons (or brothers), she vanished at death as a rainbow-hued bird that flew into the sky, and was thereafter honoured as a goddess. She is best understood as a euhemerized, deified human figure: a legendary mortal queen elevated to divine status, which is why she stands apart from the genealogy of the creator gods.