Xecotcovach
Maya · numen · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
The wooden people are the failed third creation — they walked and multiplied and had no memory of their makers — and they are not flooded away so much as taken apart by four named specialists, one per operation. Xecotcovach takes the eyes. The registry held Camazotz, who is the second of the four under the name Camalotz, and none of the other three.
Domains
- destruction
Sources
- Xecotcovach is one of the four destroyers of the people of wood in the Popol Vuh, who gouged out their eyes; the commentators take him for a bird of prey.: Popol Vuh, the destruction of the wooden people. (primary)