Zapotec ⟨Pitào Cozàana⟩; also Coqui Cozaana. The male half of the Zapotec creator-couple, god of the engendering of animals and men, of the hunt and of the ancestors, also remembered in the Isthmus as a fire-god and 'Señor de la Noche'. Distinct from the rain-god Cocijo and from the death-god Bezelao.
Domains
creation of animals
creation of humankind
the hunt
ancestors and lineage
Powers
engenders and multiplies the beasts of the wild, above all the deer
with Huichaana brings forth and multiplies men, the gods and the divinatory art
grants game to hunters and a catch to fishermen who petition him
Córdova, Fray Juan de. Vocabulario en lengua çapoteca. México: Pedro Charte y Antonio Ricardo, 1578 (cozaana, 'produzidora o engendradora de los animales').
Lind, Michael. Ancient Zapotec Religion: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective. University Press of Colorado, 2015 (Pitao Cozaana, god of animals and the hunt, creator of men and animals and god of ancestors).
Whitecotton, Joseph W. The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants. University of Oklahoma Press, 1977 (Cozaana the progenitor and god of ancestors).
Münch Galindo, Guido. La Teogonía Zapoteca y sus vestigios en Tehuantepec. UNAM, 1983.