Tohil

K’iche’ patron in the Popol Vuh. The text identifies him with the Mexicans’ Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and compares the Rabinal god One Toh. These are identifications made by this narrative, not permission to import Nahua parentage.

Names and tradition associations

• Yolcuat Quitzalcuat Aztec/Mexica · resolvedPopol Vuh, Christenson 2007 electronic edition, p. 215 and note 606: Tohil, Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and One Toh (primary)
• One Toh Maya · resolvedPopol Vuh, Christenson 2007 electronic edition, p. 215 and note 606: Tohil, Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and One Toh (primary)
• Tojil Maya · same recordPopol Vuh, Christenson 2007 electronic edition, p. 215 and note 606: Tohil, Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and One Toh (primary)

Domains

• fire
• rain and sustenance
• war and sacrifice

Powers

• Give fire to the tribes in exchange for tribute

Relations

• textual identification: QuetzalcoatlIdentification made by the Popol Vuh narrator at p. 215; it does not transfer parentage or all attributes.Popol Vuh (K'iche' text, c. 1550s), passage identifying Tohil as 'Yolcuat Quitzalcuat' among the Yaqui (Mexicans); trans. Christenson 2003 (primary); Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh (1996), notes on Tohil (secondary); Popol Vuh, Christenson 2007 electronic edition, p. 215 and note 606: Tohil, Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and One Toh (primary)
• textual identification: One Toh (Rabinal)Popol Vuh narrator’s comparison of local divine names.Popol Vuh, Christenson 2007 electronic edition, p. 215 and note 606: Tohil, Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and One Toh (primary)

Sources

• existence: Popol Vuh, Parts IV-V (primary)
• K’iche’ patron in the Popol Vuh. The text identifies him with the Mexicans’ Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and compares the Rabinal god One Toh. These are identifications made by this narrative, not permission to import Nahua parentage.: Popol Vuh, Christenson 2007 electronic edition, p. 215 and note 606: Tohil, Yolcuat Quitzalcuat and One Toh (primary)