Zapotec ⟨Pitào Xoo⟩. The god/force of earthquakes, the deified tremor of the moving earth, rendered on the Atzompa elite urn as 'El Señor Ocho Temblor' (Lord 8 Earthquake). SOLITARY: no genealogy, consort or other named kin is recorded for Pitao Xoo — he is attested purely as the functional deity of the quaking earth (Córdova 1578; Sellen 2007).
Domains
earthquakes
the moving earth
Powers
shakes the earth and looses the tremor that moves the ground
Sources
Córdova, Fray Juan de. Vocabulario en lengua çapoteca. 1578 (xoo, 'temblor de tierra'; Pitao Xoo, god of earthquakes).
Lind, Michael. Ancient Zapotec Religion. University Press of Colorado, 2015 (Pitao Xoo, god of earthquakes).
Sellen, Adam T. El cielo compartido: deidades y ancestros en las vasijas efigie zapotecas. UNAM, 2007 (xoo as living supernatural force of the moving earth).