Cotzbalam
Maya · numen · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Three of the four destroyers are animals with jobs — hawk, bat, jaguar — and the fourth is a tapir. The sequence is a butchery in order: eyes, head, flesh, bones.
Domains
- destruction
Sources
- Cotzbalam is one of the four destroyers of the wooden people in the Popol Vuh, who devoured their flesh, and is read by commentators as a jaguar.: Popol Vuh, the destruction of the wooden people. (primary)