Pitao Bezelao

Zapotec · deity · mythic · deity

Chief Zapotec god of death and the underworld, patron of Mitla.

Domains

death
underworld

Powers

Receives the dead in the house of the underworld
Sends or relieves disease and pestilence

Epithets

Coqui Bezelao

Relations

interpretatio: Mictlantecuhtli
spouse: Xonaxi Quecuya

Sources

Córdova (1578); patron of Mitla (Lyobaa)

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